The history of the cars

[digo]

Someone know any site that i can find background material of the history of the cars , when it was started and until now... Anything about cars because im doing a work about the history of cars.. also if there is material of racing cars and f1 everthing that belong to cars.... when the cars were started and who bulid the first car, things like that. If im not wrong i know that ford invented the first car....

Thankes for the help

[Mr.T]

Originally Posted by digo If im not wrong i know that ford invented the first car....

Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine in 1885.

[FordGTGuy]

Ford invented the first mass-production car in America. The beetle is the first mass production car. isn't that right?

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There are two basic types of piston-driven internal combustion engine in use today: the Otto-cycle engine (which is the normal engine we find in cars, and uses spark plugs) and the diesel engine, which does not use spark plugs.
Both types are named for their inventors: Nikolaus August Otto and Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

Source: "Internal-Co m bustion Engine," Microsoft® Encarta® 97 Encyclopedia.
More information may be found at Encarta®'s article on the Automobile Industry.

Dan Berger
MadSci Adminstrator

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Henry Ford-

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...rms=henry+ford

History of cars-

http://inventors.about.com/library/w...sassemblya.htm

Rotary Engine-

http://www.monito.com/wankel/rce.html

[digo]

thankes alot men you helped me very much if there is more good matriel please post.. thnakes :]

[gottacatchup]

Originally Posted by FordGTGuy Ford invented the first mass-production car in America. The beetle is the first mass production car. isn't that right? __________________________________________________ _______ There are two basic types of piston-driven internal combustion engine in use today: the Otto-cycle engine (which is the normal engine we find in cars, and uses spark plugs) and the diesel engine, which does not use spark plugs. Both types are named for their inventors: Nikolaus August Otto and Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel. Source: "Internal-Co m bustion Engine," Microsoft® Encarta® 97 Encyclopedia. More information may be found at Encarta®'s article on the Automobile Industry. Dan Berger MadSci Adminstrator __________________________________________________ _____ Henry Ford- http://inventors.about.com/library/i...rms=henry+ford History of cars- http://inventors.about.com/library/w...sassemblya.htm Rotary Engine- http://www.monito.com/wankel/rce.html

The Ford Model T was the first mass produced car in history. It debuted in the early 1900's i believe. It made cars cheep enough so that the middle class family could afford one. The VW beetle was designed under orders from Hitler to produce a cheep car, like the model T, for the masses.

[findleybeast]

look up "Car" at Wikipedia.org and they have a nice long section on history and other info

[Wutputt]

I believe the vehicle, which is generally viewed as the first car, was a big steam driven tricyle invented in the 18th century. Don't know the exact date.

Originally Posted by Mr.T Originally Posted by digo If im not wrong i know that ford invented the first car.... Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine in 1885.

There were already cars with internal combustion engines running before that. Although I don't have a pic to prove it
Karl Benz was the first one to make it a commercial 'success'.

Originally Posted by FordGTGuy There are two basic types of piston-driven internal combustion engine in use today: the Otto-cycle engine (which is the normal engine we find in cars, and uses spark plugs) and the diesel engine, which does not use spark plugs.

May I add something about petrol engines?

The first internal combustion engine 'on paper' was designed by Christian Huygens in 1673. But this one was never built and was designed to run on gunpowder.

The first built (2-stroke) internal combustion petrol engine was invented in 1858 by Etienne Lenoir, and commercialised and patented in 1860. The first types of this engine ran on coal gas, but were replaced in 1863 with a very primitive petroleum carburettor. In 1962 Lenoir mounted his engine on a 3-wheeled 'car' and drove from Paris to some little village with it. This Lenoir engine was extremely inefficient and the ignition system was pretty unreliable. So it was a big commercial failure.

Otto, a salesman in those days, learned about Lenoir's engine thought there could be done major improvements in this design. In 1861 he already patented a 2-stroke engine. And together with Langen he improved this engine further until somewhere around 1866. In 1876 Otto patented the 4-stroke petrol engine, until today known as the Otto cycle.

And Diesel invented the first diesel engine in 1893 and patented it in 1894. In 1897 he built a second model more improved model of the diesel engine. And that's the one that had a lot of success.

Originally Posted by findleybeast look up "Car" at Wikipedia.org and they have a nice long section on history and other info

Gotta love that site. They have EVERYTHING there =) .

This will be an amazingly board subject to cover don't you think?

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

Benz's first name was Karl??? lol
Aside from the steam coaches, I was always under the impression that Dymler and Benz built the first automobile, and that latter dymler named it after his nease Mercedes, and him and "Karl: benz then latter formed MB, wich is rite around the time Henry Ford built his fist car in back yard in a shed,and then latter went on to be the compnay that it is to day blaw blaw blaw...still looking, i'm pretty sure they considered the steam cars to be called some thing else.

[digo]

thanks you all guys you helped me very much... This site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car i think have the best info.. Then you say benz invented the first car for road?