Personality


Learn about key and most important people in automotive history. This section is fully dedicated to those who were inventing automobiles, developing car industry and just played an essential role in automobile history.


PERSONALITY

Ferdinand Porsche was born on September 3 1875in Mafferdoff town located in Austro-Hungarian province Bohemia (nowadays the territory of Czech Republic). From his early childhood Ferdinand expressed a lively interest to everything related to technics; being 15 he constructed generator and an ...
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Rudolph Diesel (1858 – 1913) was a German engineer that constructed a brand new kind of internal combustion engine that was named after him. An Engineer Can Succeed in Anything This person constructed an engine that conquered the world, an engine moving trains, vessels and cars. When ...
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The fortune plays with its favourites in very rude way. For example – Louis Renault’s history where were mixed up victory and defeat, admiration and ostracism, talent and grip. The career of brilliant business, design and martial victories brought Renault to the scaffold. To industrialist’s strange ...
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As one can guess Ferdinand Piech is nobody else but son of Anton and Louise Piech, Ferdinand Porsche’s grandson. Ferdinand Piech was born in 1937, and in 1962 he graduated from Zurich Technical University with a degree in Technical Science Doctor. In 1963 he came in grandfather’s company when just ...
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The success history whose name is Citroen There are famous names in the motor-car construction that don’t let anyone be indifferent. It is only worth to mention the name of Citroen, car experts will glean all possible synonyms right away: audacious and avant-garde style of innovations that take ...
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When Honda was still a child, he had a dream. He dreamt that one day he would own a car. And scarcely had he ever assumed that one day he would not only have a car, but also become one of the giants of car industry. Honda was predetermined by the destiny to influence the automobile and motorcycle ...
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Henry Ford was born in Springfield village (state Michigan) on July 30 1863. He was the eldest of 6 children of William and Mary Ford, who ran a successful farming business. Henry’s childhood passed at his parents’ farm. He was helping his parents with the farm and attended an ordinary village ...
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Cugnio mover was one of the very first steam-enigines, produced by N. J. Cugnio in Paris in 1770. Nicolas Joseph Cugnio was born in Lorraine in 1725. Since his youth he showed his worth as a very promising inventor and rationalizer. As long as he wasn’t well-to-do enough himself he was unable to ...
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