Automobiles and Highways - Research Article from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Social Change

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Automobiles and Highways.

Automobiles and Highways - Research Article from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Social Change

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Automobiles and Highways.
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(1880s) A parade on a main street in Belfast, Maine, possibly, a Fourth of July celebration. All participants are in horse drawn carriages and wagons, some wearing costumes and uniforms; American flags and banners fly from buildings on either side of the street.

Timeline

1675–1849 ∼ Early Powered Carriages

Model steam carriages made in China (1678) / Three-wheel, steam-powered carriages in use in Britain (1786) / Oliver Evans builds the first steam-powered motor vehicle in the U.S. (1805) / Congress authorizes construction of the Cumberland Road (1806) / Steam-powered buses in use in London (1832)

MILESTONES: Richard Arkwright invents the spinning jenny and the power-driven spinner (1700s) • Eli Whitney invents interchangeable parts, making mass production possible (early 1800s) • George Goodyear invents rubber tires (1840s) • Beginning of Manifest Destiny doctrine of acquiring western territory (1845)

1850–1899 ∼ Evolving the Automobile

First petroleum well discovered in Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake (1859) / John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil of Ohio (1870) / Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler create the essential elements of the gasoline automobile, including the spark plug (1870s–1880s) / First experiments with gasoline-powered engine (1876) / First American electric car (1891) / First American gas-powered automobile (1893) / First automobile patent granted...

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