1672:: First steam-powered vehicle, by Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China.
Image via Wikipedia
1770 and 1771:: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France demonstrated his fardier à vapeur, (“steam dray”) an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor,.
1780s to 1791:: Ivan Kulibin of Russia created first human-pedalled carriage with a steam enginefeaturing flywheel, brake, gearbox, and bearing for the first time.
1784:: William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth.
1789:: The first automobile patent in the United States was granted to Oliver Evans.
1801:: Richard Trevithick created a full-sized vehicle capable of running on the road in Camborne
1805:: First successful self-propelled vehicle, the first automobile in the USA, the first amphibious vehicle was made by Evans.
1806:: The first cars were made which were powered by an internal combustion engine running on fuel gas.
1815:: A professor at Prague Polytechnich, Josef Bozek, built an oil-fired steam car.
1838:: Walter Hancock, builder and operator of London steam buses, bui
Image via Wikipedialt a four-seat steam phaeton.
1871:: The first carriage sized steam-powered automobile in the USA was made by Dr. J.W. Carhart, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Racine, Wisconsin.
1873:: The first “real” automobile was produced by Amédée Bollée.
1885:: Ubiquitous modern gasoline- or petrol-fueled internal combustion engine was made.
1893:: Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, which was first American automobile manufacturing company.
1895:: George B. Selden of USA was finally granted a patent of the engine and its use in a 4-wheeled car.
Around The Web -
If you are allowed to chose and design your working place, I mean, not only to decorate your desk but the entire room, how would it look like?Look around your current place ant think how does it make you feel?For all of you who feel like there’s no air inside, it’s dull and stuffy.For everyone who feels like an eight hour prisoner of your office try to imagine yourself doing all that work in this place…….
via
dailymail
Around The Web -
What to do with old tires? Well, we can use them to make wonderful parks for our children, Or if you’re an inventive artist working with discarded materials, you can create awesome sculptures like the ones featured below. Tires sure have come a long way since they were constructed out of iron and steel in the horse and wagon era. Back in those days, workers known as wheelwrights forged the tires in a hot fire and then let them cool and contract around the wooden wheels. Some even insist that this action of “tying” the tire to the wheel is where the modern-day word originates. (Though others think that the word comes from the root “attire.”)Rubber pneumatic tires didn’t come along until John Boyd Dunlop invented one in 1887 for his son’s bicycle. Today, more than a billion are produced each year. That presents a real problem because it takes a tire years to decompose. Some states have even banned tires from landfills. So hopefully we’ll start seeing more uses like those pictured bellow. Beautiful!
Around The Web -
CYC- Caye Chapel Airport
LSS- Terre-de-Haut Airport
SMA- Santa Maria Public Airport
PNI- Pohnpei International Airport
ISC-Hugh Town St. Mary¼s Airport
MGT- Milingimbi Airport
GZO- Gizo Airport
FAV- Fakarava Airport
XSC- South Caicos Airport
IPC- Mataveri International Airport
Around The Web -
In the museum of history and culture of Berlin (Märkisches Museum) there is an interesting place where you can see "The city model of Berlin". If you like everything in miniature you will like it.
Around The Web -
Image via Wikipedia
Image via Wikipedialt a four-seat steam phaeton.
