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This was the start of women playing important roles in the automotive industry. [1] As at 2016, only 11% of the global workforce in the automotive industry were women, with large national industries such as Japan facing shortages in female engineers. [2] [3]
Concept cars and submodels are not listed unless they are themselves notable. ... (No civilian vehicles were made this year) 1944 ... (North America) (1980-1989) Ford ...
Little is known about her early life, [citation needed] which was common for many women of her era, whose personal histories were often overshadowed by their male counterparts. [1] Wilcox showed an early interest in mechanical engineering despite the social conventions of her era, which often restricted women's roles to domestic domains.
However, cars with front-wheel drive were made several years earlier in road cars produced by Alvis and Cord as well as in racing cars by Miller (and may have appeared as early as 1897). In the same vein, the independent suspension was initially developed by Amédée Bollée in 1873, but not put in production until the low-volume Mercedes-Benz ...
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.
Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis Vaccine A pioneering female American doctor , medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatric community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine .
The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014). Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014). Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 ...
1930 Car audio. Car audio/video (car AV) is a sound or video system fitted in an automobile. In 1930, the Galvin Corporation introduced the first commercial car radio, the Motorola model 5T71, which sold for between $110 and $130 and could be installed in most popular automobiles.