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The Ford Model T (foreground) and Volkswagen Beetle (background) are among the most mass-produced car models in history. Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels....
- Timeline of motor vehicle brands
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor...
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Za pierwszego konstruktora samobieżnego pojazdu kołowego zdolnego do przewozu osób – prototypu samochodu – uznaje się francuskiego inżyniera Nicolasa Josepha Cugnota (1725–1804), który zbudował pojazdy o napędzie parowym mające pełnić funkcję ciągnika artyleryjskiego dla armii francuskiej – pierwszy ok. 1765 roku i kolejny ...
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people over cargo. [ 1 ][ 2 ] There are around one billion cars in use worldwide.
The early history of the automobile can be divided into a number of eras, based on the method of propulsion. Later periods were defined by trends in exterior styling, size, and utility preferences. The question of who invented the first automobile depends on how automobiles are defined.
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced. This also gives an idea of what motor ...
Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to ...
11 lis 2024 · Leonardo da Vinci considered the idea of a self-propelled vehicle in the 15th century. In 1760 a Swiss clergyman, J.H. Genevois, suggested mounting small windmills on a cartlike vehicle, their power to be used to wind springs that would move the road wheel. Genevois’s idea probably derived from a windmill cart of about 1714.
