By: Haya Al Thani

THE EVOLUTION OF MOTOR CARS

In 1335 the first designs for the car was Invented.

FIRST DESIGNS FOR THE CAR

In 1769 Cugnot and Brezin invented the first successful car !

FIRST SUCCESSFUL CAR!

In 1769 Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French

army to haul heavy cannons.

Using a steam engine fixed to a three-wheeled cart, Cugnot successfully converted the back-and-forth action of a steam

piston into rotary motion.

The truck reputedly reached walking speed and carried four tones. The army later abandoned his invention.

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In 1801 ‘road locomotive’ - known as the Puffing Devil – was the first horseless carriage to transport passengers.

Innovations like hand brakes, gears, and steering improvements were developed in subsequent decades.

FIRST HORSELESS CARRIAGE

In 1858 Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a two-stroke, internal

combustion engine. It was fuelled by coal gas and triggered by an electric spark-ignition.

Lenoir later attached an improved engine to a three-wheeled wagon and completed a fifty-mile road trip.

FIRST COAL-GAS ENGINE

ETIENNE LENOIR ‘S DESIGNS

In 1860 Lenoir’s design used two cylinders to compress and burn the gas.

In 1865 the Locomotive Act restricted the speed of horse-less vehicles to 4mph in open country and 2 mph in towns.

The act effectively required three drivers for each vehicle; two to travel in the vehicle and one to walk ahead waving a red flag. For the next 30 years cars couldn’t legally travel

above walking speed.

SPEED RESTRICTIONS INTRODUCED IN UK

In 1901 Randsom Old gained fame as the first mass producer of gas powered in America.

RANDSOM OLD FIRST MASS PRODUCER

In 1913 Henry Ford began to produce cars .

Henry’s credited today as the father of the assembly line.

HENRY FORD INVENTION