CARS AND HISTORY
1490 Leonardo da Vinci builds a manual motor vehicle
1673 Christian Huygens, Dutch physicist, builds an atmospheric reciprocating engine
1769 James Watt, Scottish mechanic, patents a low-pressure steam engine with a condenser.
Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French military engineer, is building a three-wheeled steam tractor
1801 Richard Trevithick, English mining engineer, builds a "road locomotive” Captain Dicks Puffer, a direct predecessor of the steam locomotive
1806 Isaac of Rivers, swiss major, builds a vehicle with a gas engine and electric ignition
1839 Charles Goodyear, american chemist, discovers the vulcanization of raw rubber
1841 Joseph Whitwort, Scottish mechanic, develops a uniform thread system
1845 Robert William Thomson, Edinburgh merchant, invented pneumatic tires and obtained a patent for them
1859 G. R. plants, French physicist, patent the invention of a lead battery
1860 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, french waiter, builds a gas engine with electric ignition
1866 Werner Siemens, German electrical engineer, constructs a generator
1875 Siegfried Marcus, Viennese constructor, builds a car with a gasoline engine and a magneto ignition
1876 Nicholas August Otto, merchant apprentice from Cologne, obtains a patent for the first 4-stroke gas engine
1885 Carl Benz builds the first three-wheeled car
Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first Petroleum Reitwagen motorcycle
1886 G. Daimler unveils its first four-wheeled car
1887 C. Benz invents the first electric ignition for low speed engines
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, Irish vet, obtains a patent for bicycle tires
1893 Wilhelm Maybach, German constructor and Donat Banks, Hungarian inventor, they do independently of each other, invention of the carburetor with a fuel injection
1895 The first car races: in Europe - (Paris - Bordeaux - Paris) in America - (Chicago — Vaukegan — Chicago)
Establishment of the Automobile Club de France
1896 F. W. Lanchester builds the first English car of a French, Eduard Michelin, invents pneumatic tires on a cat's replaceable rim
1898 The first car show in Tuilleria, in Paris
1899 Belgian, Camille Jenatzy, exceeds speed 100 km / h on the electric car Jamais Contente
1900 The first Mercedes with all the features of a modern car is released
1901 G. Honold builds a high-voltage magneto for high-speed engines
1902 Louis Renault obtains a patent for supercharging the engine with a radial compressor
1904 Foundation of the women's car club
1905 The end of the era of Antique vehicles
1906 The first race for the French Grand Prix
1907 Beijing - Paris Rally (transcontinental marathon)
1908 Foundation of the largest car concern General Motors Company
1910 Introduction of car taxes in England. First production cars with four-wheel brakes
1911 The first serial Cadillac cars with an electric starter
1918 The end of the era of Veteran vehicles
1919 The era of Vintage cars begins
1921 Introduction of hydraulic brakes on American cars
1922 Introduction of balloon tires
1923 Four-wheel brakes are widely used
1924 Proposition of Henry Ford for the office of President of the United States
1926 Merger of Daimler and Benz into Daimler-Benz AG
1927 Introduction of the concept of the octane number of fuel
The first automotive radio receivers appear in the USA
1929 Black Friday” American stock exchange and the beginning of the economic crisis
1930 The beginning of the era of Classic Cars
1931 The first two-stroke car (DKW) with front drive
1932 Balloon tires are displaced by low-pressure tires
1933 The principles of aerodynamics were introduced in the production of serial cars
1935 Malcolm Campbell is setting at the Great Salt Lake (Salt Lake — USA) absolute speed record 485,175 km/h
1936 The first Mercedes passenger car with a compression-ignition engine appears
1938 Laying the foundation stone for the Volkswagen car factory
1940 The era of Classic Cars is over