Creation history

The first automobile equipped with a gearbox Renault Voiturette was built at Billancourt (France) by Louis Renault back in 1898, when he was only a little over 20. He reconstructed the small tricycle of de Dion’s to a 4-wheeled automobile and changed the driving belts and chains making much noise, ...
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De Dion-Bouton motorcar was constructed by De Dion-Bouton firm in Paris in 1903. Albert de Dion, an extravagant viscount born in 1856 in Carquefous was nicknamed a “sport marquis” by his comrades, both because he was really good in fencing and he was among of the first motorists and one of the ...
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"Benz & Co. Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik" Company was founded in 1885. One of this brand founders, Carl Friedrich Benz, began building automobile with internal-combustion engine. He used chassis with three wheels, equipped with wood spokes and rubber hoop. The company’s first engine was meant ...
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At the initial stage of automobile history vehicle for the overwhelming part of population was something inconceivable, unreal, and rather unpractical. Some considered automobile funny rara avis but most saw it just as smoky and perilous machine possibly connected to evil spirit. Imperfection ...
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Now it is hard to imagine the process of motorization in France without Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor - two engineers who in 1886 founded woodworking machinery plant. After a time they got license for outputting Daimler’s engines and since 1890 their company began producing automobiles ...
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The electric drive was widely adapted to practical domestic applications from the first half of the 19th century. It was created on the basis of recharged batteries: no vibration, no exhaust, 90% of efficiency in comparison with 25% of internal combustion engine. The very first efforts were ...
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The principle of combustion engine operation was based on a pistol invented by Alessandro Volta in 1777. The principle laid in using electric spark and mixture of air and coal gas instead of gunpowder. In 1807 Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland took out a patent for using the mixture of ...
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Modern civilization can’t exist without automobiles – that’s a fact but automobile history went through several stages before reached the invention of car in modern understanding. And the one of the milestones in this long cycle was invention of gas engine. The basis for it was established by ...
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Combustion engine history: A. Otto 4-stroke engine invention and his coal gas engine model. An outstanding role in developing combustion engine belongs to German inventor Nikolai-August Otto (1832-1891) from Köln. Working together with rich engineer Eugeniy Langen (1833-1895) Otto managed to ...
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Marcus, a motor carriage that was manufactured by Liechtenstein machine works in Adamov, Austria-Hungary in 1875-1888. Siegfried Marcus was born in 1831 in Malchein in Mecklenburg. He worked as a mechanic at Siemens I Halske firm in Berlin. In 1852 he moved to Vienna, where he worked for some ...
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