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The Future of Automobiles, Inspires A Look At Automotive History
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The world of automobiles has made some drastic changes in the past century. And each new year brings more advancement in car technology and innovative improvements to features and accessories. The future looks bright for car buyers and for car manufacturers.
However, all that brightness might make someone nostalgic for the days of old, when the automotive industry was young. Or perhaps just a bit curious about how it all began.
The first foreign cars. Way back in the 15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci was working diligently on designs and prototypes for transport vehicles, but unfortunately, none ever came into being.
It wasn't until 1769 that an inventor in France built a working self propelled vehicle. His name was Nicolas Cugnot, and the vehicle was a steam powered military tractor.
In Scotland, around 1839, Robert Anderson took a ride in his creation, which he called the Electric Carriage. Today's modern hybrid cars use technology based upon the ideas first dreamed of almost 170 years ago!
But the legitimate title of Automobile Inventor would have to go to German inventor, Karl Friedrich Benz. It was in 1886 that he received a patent on the world's first gasoline powered automobile, it had a combustion engine, and three wheels.
The first American cars. In the United States, the first patent issued for an automobile was granted in 1789, to Oliver Evans. He performed an amazing demonstration of his vehicle in 1805, when he dazzled onlookers by showing the crowd that his automobile was able to travel on land, and in the water by using a paddle wheel. Proudly crowned the first amphibious vehicle, as well as the first American steam powered vehicle, it never quite made it to production for the public.
It was in 1893 that Charles Edgar Duryea, and his brother Frank introduced to America the first gasoline powered car that worked the way it was supposed to. These two engineering brothers also started the first American automobile manufacturing plant.
Mass production in the United States. The Duryea Motor Wagon Company began producing cars in 1893. By 1902 however, the automotive industry was following the lead of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which had been founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. When that fledgling company began to fail, Ransom left it behind him and opened the doors to the REO Motor Car Company, and which we know by the name of General Motors today. A common and frequent mistaken belief is that Henry Ford invented the first car. Henry created his first car in 1896, it was known as the "Quadricycle." He had formed and lost two other car manufacturing plants by 1903, when he started The Ford Motor Company. However, it was not until the production of the Model T in 1908, that Henry Ford knew real and lasting success. His most famous contribution to the automotive industry was that he invented the first assembly line conveyer belt that revolutionized the manufacturing of automobiles, the assembly lines were up and running in his factory by 1913. It was not long before all the others had them as well, and the rest is history.
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