AUTOMOBILES SteamPowered Automobiles Newton Verbiest 1681 Cugnot 1769

AUTOMOBILES

Steam-Powered (Automobiles? ) Newton Verbiest (1681) Cugnot (1769)

“Father Of The Automobile ? ” u Definitions t Petrol As Fuel t Production u Gottlieb Daimler, 1885 t Best Engines u Karl Benz, 1885 u Siegfried Marcus, 1875 u Henry Ford, 1903

Siegfried Markus u 1875 u Petrol Driven u Four Wheels u Steering u Viennese Police Objected To Noise u No Future Development u No Patent

Gottlieb Daimler u 1886 (Shown) u 1883 To 1885 t Petrol Engines t First, Two Wheels t Then, Four Wheels u Cannstatt To Esslingen t 11 mph - 1. 5 hp u Patent - 1885 u Company - 1899

Karl Benz u 1885 t Five Months After Daimler u Three Wheels u Single Cylinder - 0. 9 hp u Also Patented u Mannheim to Pforzheim t Berta Benz Drove t Started & Stopped t Cleaned Plugs t Oil Squirted t Trans. Belt Slipped

Panhard-Levassor & Fiat u Panhard-Levassor (1890) t Bought Engines From Daimler u First Fiat Car (1899) t Two Cylinder t Horizontally Opposed

Peugeot u Madame Sarazin t License From Daimler u Armand Peugeot u 1896 (shown) u 1899 t Two Cylinder t 1. 65 hp

Renault u 1899 u Enclosed Carriage u Fenders u Windshield u Cardanic Drive Transmission

Mercedes u First (1900)

Ford Motor Co. u Henry Ford u Horseless Carriage t 1896 u 1903 (Shown) t Dearborn, MI t 600 Cars Per Year t Mass Production ? t Interchangeable Parts?

Ford Motor Co. u Model “T” (Shown) u First Year - 1908 u Production t 1908 - 19, 000 t By 1920 - 1, 250, 000 t By 1927 - 15, 000 t Only VW Beetle Surpasses w Ferdinand Porsche u Europe Adopted Mass Production t 1919 - Citroen Type “A”

Advancements u Disc Brakes - George Labchester (1901) u Electric Ignition - Robert Bosch (1897) u Pneumatic Tires t John Boyd Dunlop - Son’s Tricycle (1888) t R. W. Thompson - Horse Drawn Carriage (1845) t Michelin (1894/95) u England - Little Or No Development t Red Flag Act (1865 -78) - Slowed Development t 4 mph Limit t Repealed 1898 - Brighton Veteran Car Run

Advancements u Charles Rolls & Henry Royce t “Silver Ghost” (1907) t 50 hp t “Finest Car In World” u Electric Starting & Lights t Austro-Daimler (1911) t Cadillac (1912) u Hydraulic Brakes - Duesenberg (1920) u Full Hydraulics - Citroen (1955)

Japanese u England t Herbert Austin - “Baby Austin” 7 t 1931 u Datsun Manufactured “Baby Austin” t 1935 t Under License t Nippon Steel Co. w Nissan-Datsun u Largest In World t 7 Million Per Year