The Evolution of Motor cars

1. The Evolution of Motor cars By: Haya Al Thani

2. First designs for the car • In 1335 the first designs for the car was Invented.

3. First successful car! • In 1769 Cugnot and Brezin invented the first successful car !

4. French milit French military engineer ary engineer • In 1769 Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French army to haul heavy cannons. • Using a steam engine fixed to a three-wheeled cart, Cugnot successfully converted the back-and-forth action of a steam piston into rotary motion. • The truck reputedly reached walking speed and carried four tones. The army later abandoned his invention.

5. First horseless carriage • In 1801 ‘road locomotive’ - known as the Puffing Devil – was the first horseless carriage to transport passengers. Innovations like hand brakes, gears, and steering improvements were developed in subsequent decades.

6. First Coal-gas engine • In 1858 Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a two-stroke, internal combustion engine. It was fuelled by coal gas and triggered by an electric spark-ignition. • Lenoir later attached an improved engine to a three-wheeled wagon and completed a fifty-mile road trip.

7. Etienne Lenoir ‘s designs • In 1860 Lenoir’s design used two cylinders to compress and burn the gas.

8. Speed restrictions introduced in UK • In 1865 the Locomotive Act restricted the speed of horse-less vehicles to 4mph in open country and 2 mph in towns. • The act effectively required three drivers for each vehicle; two to travel in the vehicle and one to walk ahead waving a red flag. For the next 30 years cars couldn’t legally travel above walking speed.

9. Randsom Old first mass producer • In 1901 RandsomOld gained fame as the first mass producer of gas powered in America.

10. Henry Ford Invention • In 1913 Henry Ford began to produce cars . • Henry’s credited today as the father of the assembly line.