CAR
The Car as we know it today is also referred to as an automobile, auto car, motor car is a wheeled chassis with an engine mounted to it used for the transportation of passengers and their goods. In the beginning of the 1920’s the term motorcar was also used in the context of electrified rail systems to denote a car which functions as a small locomotive for passengers and their goods.
Around the world, there were about 800 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2006 and the engines of these automobiles burn over one billion cubic meters of petrol and diesel fuel every year, as China alone puts out 14000 cars onto the roads each day.
In 1807 Nicephore Niepce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine, but they chose to install it in a boat on the river Saone in France.
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry.
Karl Benz is generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern day motor car. An automobile powered by his own four stroke petrol engine was built in Germany in 1885. It was an integral design, without the adaptation of other existing components, and included several new technological elements to create a new concept. He began to sell his production cars in 1888.
In 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle. His first Motorwagen was built in 1885, and he was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application on January 29, 1886. Benz began promotion of the vehicle on July 3, 1886, and about 25 Benz vehicles were sold between 1888 and 1893. They also were powered with four-stroke engines of his own design
In 1896, Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion flat engine, called The Boxermotor. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899.
The first design for an American automobile with a gasoline internal combustion engine was made in 1877 by George Selden of New of New York. After a delay of sixteen years and a series of attachments to his application, on November 5, 1895, Selden was granted a United States patent for a two-stroke automobile engine. His patent was challenged by Henry Ford and overturned in 1911.
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