Automobile
The first inventors to build automobiles lived in Europe, but the United States rapidly coopted their inventions to become the world's preeminent car culture. Over the course of the twentie...
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Automobile, Gasoline
Gasoline was first used as a fuel for vehicles in the early to mid-1820s. Inventors had experimented with vehicles powered by other means almost two centuries earlier; the first h...
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Automotive Electronics
Automotive engineers were slow to adopt electronics applications because the cost was high compared to the benefits to consumers. Electrical systems were also very limited in th...
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Directional Signals, Automobile
As long ago as 1889, E. Martin worked on a rudimentary signal system that would enhance automobile and road safety. He thought of using a board mounted to the back of h...
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Automobile
The development of the automobile at the end of the nineteenth century fundamentally changed the structure of society in the developed world and has had wide-ranging effects on the enviro...
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Automobiles
One of the distinguishing characteristics of human beings is that they have always been mobile. From its origins on the African continent, the human species has traversed the earth and pop...
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A Southern California Edison employee logs test results at the company's electric meter site. (Corbis-Bettmann)
Automobile Performance
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the automobi...
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The Invention of Automobiles
Overview
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) and Karl Benz (1844-1929) developed a gasoline-powered automobile, a significant improv...
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Millions of people own and drive cars, but many of those people go through their whole lives not knowing anything about how to fix or notice the minor details of their cars. Every now and then they sh...
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There was vast economic growth in the 1920s in America. At the beginning of this boom was the invention of the car. Some people believe that without the car the boom would never have happened, but...
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Automobile
Automobile, Gasoline
Automobile
Automobiles
Automobile Performance
The Invention of Automobiles
