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Evolutionofcars 150405124929 Conversion Gate01
Evolutionofcars 150405124929 Conversion Gate01
Starting To Think
• Several Italians recorded designs for wind
driven vehicles
– The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335.
– But sadly it was never built.
First Engine
• In the 18th century a one of a kind technology
was developed, which is being still used, i.e.
engine with cylinders and pistons.
• But it took more than five decades to make
this new technology efficient enough to make
a vehicle move on its own.
• The cars being made in England in the 19th
were more like trains not moving on rails.
First Successful Attempt
• The first vehicle to own under its own power
whose record is there was designed by Nicholas
Joseph Cugnot constructed by M. Brezin in 1769.
• It had a open boiler piped to the cylinder.
• A replica of which is on display at Conservatoire
des Arts et Metiers, in Paris.
• Its purpose was to haul canons around the town
• And its top speed was 2 mph, as fast as anyone
would want to go on the cobbled streets of Paris.
Change In Fuel To Suit New
Mechanism
• After the open boilers there was need for
internal combustion engines.
• But this had to wait until suitable fuel was
available.
• Gunpowder was tried but didn’t work out.
• Coal gas was used after the failure of
gunpowder.
Coal Gas Cars
• A French named Etienne Lenior patented the
first practical gas engine in 1862.
• It had a one-half horsepower engine, a bore of
5 inch, 24 inch stroke.
• It was big and heavy and turned 100 rpm.
• Lenoir died broke in 1900.
• Lenoir was claimed to be running on benzene.
– If so then it was the first to run on petroleum
based fuel.
Change in mechanism
• Lenoir had a separate mechanism to compress
the gas before combustion.
• In 1862, Alphonse Bear de Rochas figured how to
compress the gas in the same cylinders in which it
we to burn, which we still use.
• This process of bringing the gas into cylinder,
compressing it, combusting the compressed
mixture, then exhausting is known as Otto Cycle
or four cycle engine.
– Dailmer and Benz got the patent by claiming it from
de Rochas
THE VERY FIRST DRIVE