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The vehicle contained many new inventions. It was constructed of steel tubing with woodwork panels. The steel-spoked wheels and solid rubber tires were Benz's own design. Steering was by way of a toothed rack that pivoted the unsprung front wheel. Fully elliptic springs were used at the back along with a beam axle and chain drive on both sides.
1885-built Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use The second Marcus car of 1888 The lack of suitable fuels , particularly liquids, hampered early attempts at making and using internal combustion engines—therefore, some of the earliest engines used gas mixtures.
In 1895, Benz designed the first truck with an internal combustion engine in history. Benz also built the first motor buses in history in 1895, for the Netphener bus company. [21] [22] [23] Benz "Velo" model presentation in London 1898. In 1896, Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first flat engine.
Elwood Haynes (October 14, 1857 – April 13, 1925) was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist.He invented the metal alloy stellite and independently co-discovered martensitic stainless steel along with Englishman Harry Brearley in 1912 and designed one of the earliest automobiles made in the United States.
A vehicle frame, also historically known as its chassis, is the main supporting structure of a motor vehicle to which all other components are attached, comparable to the skeleton of an organism. Until the 1930s, virtually every car had a structural frame separate from its body. This construction design is known as body-on-frame.
The company regularly competed their cars in endurance races. A Haynes-Apperson was among the cars entered in the first automobile race in America, the Chicago Times-Herald race from Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, in 1895. [2] The last model designed by the company had a three-speed transmission and was capable of 24 mph on pneumatic tires. In ...
Standard Steel Car Company, whose primary business was railroad rolling stock, announced in the summer of 1913 that a new $2,000,000 factory was nearing completion for the production of automobiles. The first Standard was a six-cylinder which began limited production in early 1914.
Most of the first car builders were inventors, rather than businessmen, working with their imaginations and the parts they had on hand. [3] Thus, the invention of the Quadricycle type of vehicle in France in the 1880s marks an important innovation as a proto-automobile that would lay the foundation for the future, with more practical designs to ...