WHATS' YOU GUYS THINK OF AUTOMOBILES

   

Hey guys, on that time we use our legs to go far and near by places.but, today we use a vehicle to go every place in the world.it was after invention of the automobile .even too, it make us lazy.what do think before the discovery of automobiles...... 

Leonardo da vinci considered the idea of a self-propelled vehicle in the 15th century. In 1760 a Swiss clergyman, J.H. Genevois, suggested mounting small windmills on a cartlike vehicle, their power to be used to wind springs that would move the road wheel. Genevois’s idea probably derived from a windmill cart of about 1714. Two-masted wind carriages were running in the Netherlands in 1600, and a speed of 20 miles (30 km) per hour with a load of 28 passengers was claimed for at least one of them. The first recorded suggestion of wind use was probably Robert Valturio’s unrealized plan (1472) for a cart powered by windmills geared to the wheels.

Other inventors considered the possibilities of clockwork. Probably in 1748 a carriage propelled by a large clockwork engine was demonstrated in Paris by the versatile inventor jacques de vaucanson 

   

The air engine is thought to have originated with a 17th-century German physicist,otto von guericke . Guericke invented an air pump and was probably the first to make metal pistons, cylinders, and connecting rods, the basic components of the reciprocating engine. In the 17th century a Dutch inventor, christiaan huygens, produced an engine that worked by air pressure developed by explosion of a powder charge. Denis papin of France built a model engine on the vacuum principle, using the condensation of steam to produce the vacuum. An air engine was patented in England in 1799, and a grid of compressor stations was proposed to service vehicles. An air-powered vehicle is said to have been produced in 1832.

Steam propulsion was proposed as early as the 16th century, and in 1678 Ferdinand verbiet, a Belgian Jesuit missionary to China, made a model steam carriage based on a principle suggestive of the modern turbine

Inventor	Date	Type/Description	Country
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804)	1769	STEAM / Built the first self propelled road vehicle (military tractor) for the French army: three wheeled, 2.5 mph.	France
Robert Anderson	1832-1839	ELECTRIC / Electric carriage.	Scotland
Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929)	1885/86	GASOLINE / Automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit.	Germany Patent DRP No. 37435
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900) and Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929)	1886	GASOLINE / First four wheeled, four-stroke engine- known as the “Cannstatt-Daimler.”	Germany
George Baldwin Selden (1846-1922)	1876/95	GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured — Selden collected royalties.	United States
Charles Edgar Duryea (1862-1938) and his brother Frank (1870-1967)	1893	GASOLINE / First successful gas powered car: 4hp, two-stroke motor. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company.	United States