Automobiles First Look
By Vaibhav daroch
{vrdaroch1990@in.com}
The first car
On the other hand, if you believe that a motorcycle must be powered by a gasoline engine, the first motorcycle was built in Germany. On August 30 1885, Gottlieb Daimler’s wooden motorcycle was powered by a 4-stroke internal combustion engine
Panhard and Levassor also shared the licensing rights to Daimler motors with Armand Peugot. A Peugot car went on to win the first car race held in France, which gained Peugot publicity and boosted car sales. Ironically, the "Paris to Marseille" race of 1897 resulted in a fatal auto accident, killing Emile Levassor
The motorcycle featured a water cooled engine (the coolant tank/radiator of which is prominent over and around the rear wheel) mounted in a purpose-designed tubular frame. The rear wheel was directly driven from the connecting rods. There was no flywheel (rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy) other than the rear wheel, and it needed heavy rubber bands to provide the return impulse.
By Vaibhav daroch
{vrdaroch1990@in.com}
The first car
Hey fellas what's goin on. Hope you are taking good care of your means of ride. I am a new bird in this massive automobile blogging industry. I am not a proffesional. But I'm very curious about cars and bikes. When I'm writing this blog, there are around 100 crore bikes and cars making buzz on black carpet in the whole world. But you will find it funny that around 30% of them are standing on the red light. So, let set & go through the history of automobiles.
The word 'car' comes from a Celtic word that sounded like karra to
Julius Caesar, who gave the name to his chariots. Karra later was Latinized to
carra. Surprisingly, the word car appears first around 1300; carriage
evolved from it, then horseless carriage, and, finally, back to car again as a
shortened form."
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| World's first car |
On 29th January 1886, world's first car came into existance. It was Karl Benz applied for a patent for his "vehicle with gas engine operation." Patent DRP 37435 for the Benz patent Motor Car granted in November of the same year is regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile.
Seven months after Benz filed his patent for the automobile, Daimler with his master engineer Wilhelm Maybach attached his Daimler engine to a four-wheeled coach producing the first "horseless" carriage. Benz created innovative technology with classic engineering methods: a small horizontal, single-cylinder four-stroke engine running on gasoline, electric ignition, carburetor, water-cooled radiator, steering and tubular frame. One of them was secretly taken out by Bertha Benz, the inventor's wife, who drove it with her sons 53 miles from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Thus Bertha Benz became the first woman driver.
The First bike
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| Sylvesters Howard Roper's bike made in 1869 |
If your definition of motorcycle allows for a two-wheeled vehicle powered by any kind of motor, the answer has to be that the world’s first motorcycle was invented by an American. It was finished in approximately 1869 by Sylvester Howard Roper. The two-cylinder, steam-engine motorcycle was fueled by coal.
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| Gottlieb Daimler's bike made in 1885 |
On the other hand, if you believe that a motorcycle must be powered by a gasoline engine, the first motorcycle was built in Germany. On August 30 1885, Gottlieb Daimler’s wooden motorcycle was powered by a 4-stroke internal combustion engine
The first car manufacturers
The first car manufacturers in the world were French: Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891). By car manufacturer we mean builders of entire motor vehicles for sale and not just engine inventors who experimented with car design to test their engines.
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| Rene Panhard |
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| Emile Levasson |
Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor were partners in a woodworking machinery business, when they decided to become car manufacturers. They built their first car in 1890 using a Daimler engine. Panhard-Levassor made vehicles with a pedal-operated clutch, a chain transmission leading to a change-speed gearbox, and a front radiator. Levassor was the first designer to move the engine to the front of the car and use a rear-wheel drive layout.
Panhard and Levassor also shared the licensing rights to Daimler motors with Armand Peugot. A Peugot car went on to win the first car race held in France, which gained Peugot publicity and boosted car sales. Ironically, the "Paris to Marseille" race of 1897 resulted in a fatal auto accident, killing Emile Levassor
The first bike manufacturers
In 1894,wolfmuller & hidebrand became the first series production motorcycle, and the first to be called a motorcycle.
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| Wilhelm Hidebrand |
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| Alois Wolfmuller |
However, only a few hundred examples of this motorcycle were ever built. Soon, as the engines became more powerful and designs outgrew the bicycle origins, the number of motorcycle-oriented producers increased.
The motorcycle featured a water cooled engine (the coolant tank/radiator of which is prominent over and around the rear wheel) mounted in a purpose-designed tubular frame. The rear wheel was directly driven from the connecting rods. There was no flywheel (rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy) other than the rear wheel, and it needed heavy rubber bands to provide the return impulse.
The Hildebrand & Wolfmüller patent of 20 January 1894, No. 78553 describes a 1,489 cc (90.9 cu in) two cylinder, four stroke engine with a bore and stroke of 90 × 117 mm (3.5 × 4.6 in). It produced 1.9 kW (2.5 bhp) @ 240 rpm propelling a weight of 50 kg (110 lb) up to a maximum speed of 45 km/h (28 mph). The Hildebrand & Wolfmüller factory closed in 1919 after first world war.
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