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Who invented it
Father ferdinand verbiest, steam powered car made for he chinese.The development of the internal combustion engine had to wait until a fuel was available to combust internally. Gunpowder was tried but didn't work out. Gunpowder carburetors are still hard to find. The first gas really did use gas. They used coal gas generated by heating coal in a pressure vessel or boiler. A Frenchman named Etienne Lenoir patented the first practical gas engine in Paris in 1860 and drove a car based on the design -
First combustion gas car
Lenoir had a separate mechanism to compress the gas before combustion. In 1862, Alphonse Bear de Rochas figured out how to compress the gas in the same cylinder in which it was to burn, which is the way we still do it. This process of bringing the gas into the cylinder, compressing it, combusting the compressed mixture, then exhausting it is know as the Otto cycle, or four cycle engine. Lenoir claimed to have run the car on benzene and his drawings show an electric spark ignition. If so, then hi -
First major car dealer
Henry Ford had an engine running by 1893 but it was 1896 before he built his first car. By the end of the year Ford had sold his first car, which he called a Quadracycle, for $200 and used the money to build another one. With the financial backing of the Mayor of Detroit, William C. Maybury and other wealthy Detroiters, Ford formed the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. A few prototypes were built but no production cars were ever made by this company. It was dissolved in January 1901. Ford woul -
Cost
In the year 1925, a Ford automobile would cost only $625. Now adays cars are 25,000 dollars. Becasue motors are more efficent and use other materials to make cars. -
aero dynamics
The history of aero dyanmics started with a man looking at a bird in the sky and wondering about there airflow. and translated it into a car design. that made cars fast and create less drag. in the 1930. -
Air condition
• 1940 Packard was the first to come up with the car air condition. at that time everyone wanted it in there car but yet again it was a little pricey. the air condition was located underneath the dashboard -
Engine swapping
3.The fastest time that was taken to remove a car engine and replacing it with a new one was 42 seconds. This historic incident occurred on 21st November 1985 and the car was a Ford Escort. Back in the early days of car productions it took sometimes 3 times as long to change the engine. -
Wind shilf wipers
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brakes
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Wind shild wiper fluid
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cars now
Cars now adays save gas milage. Cost alot more money. and cars have v8 that waste a lot of money. also many types and many diffrent areas of cars