CARS AND HISTORY

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