The Past, Present, and Future of Automobiles.
Automobiles have evolved greatly since the first one was invented in the 1800's. They went from 2 horse driven to 200-horse power. Automobiles have become the most popular mode of transportation since horseback a couple of hundred years ago. This paper will explain the past, present, and future of automobile transportation, and will also explain how the evolution of automobile transportation has effected the development of human beings.
The past of automobiles.
To understand better what the future of cars might be like, we must first grasp a basic understanding of the history of cars. (1) "After all, it is history that leads to the future." .
In France, in 1770 a military engineer named Nicholas Joseph Cugnot built a large steam-driven vehicle. It could only operate for 12 to 15 minutes before running out of steam, and its tremendous weight and poor balance made it very difficult to steer. This was the first sign of an automobile. The history of the automobile actually began about 4,000 years ago when the first wheel was used for transportation in India. Several Italians recorded designs for wind-driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill-type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Juan Vaturio designed a similar vehicle that was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed clockwork-driven tricycle, but he was considered crazy and out of his mind.
In Great Britain the inventors William Murdock and James Watt constructed another form of automobile in 1781, and in 1784 they produced a model of a wagon that used the power of a high-pressure, noncondensing steam engine. The British inventor William Symington, in 1786 built a working model of a so-called steam carriage. The first automobile to carry passengers was built in 1801 by the British inventor Richard Trevithick.
