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100,000 patents created the modern automobile
French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
2 1/2 mph on only three wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten to fifteen
minutes to build up steam power.
In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles
into a stone wall, making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor vehicle
accident.
Steam engines powered cars by burning fuel that
heated water in a boiler, creating steam that expanded and pushed pistons that
turned the crankshaft, which then turned the wheels.
steam engines were very successfully used in locomotives
Nicolas Cugnot was the inventor of the first
automobile.
Vehicles with electrical engines were also invented.
Both steam and electric road vehicles were abandoned in favor of gas-powered
vehicles.

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Model "T," but that was actually a latecomer in the development of the automobile.
Leonardo da Vinci, who drew up a basic plan for motor driven vehicle.
rate of 2 1/2 miles per hour.
Robert Anderson designed a more practical motor vehicle that used a battery to power a small motor
It was the invention of the first reliable internal combustion engine that really brought a reliable, workable automobile to the world
1885 that Daimler perfected his internal combustion engine
affordable to more people, rather than just a toy for the rich, as autos had
been up until that time.
Roads and highways were pretty primitive when the automobile first came on the
scene; but with the demand growing as fast as car ownership, roads, streets,
then highways, and finally freeways began to be built, offering more connection
between places that had formerly been dependent on horse riders or the railroad
for news and goods from elsewhere.
Ransome Eli Olds, it was called the "Curved Dashboard Oldsmobile,"
less dependent on fossil fuel
1). The Model T, introduced in 1908, was a huge success; and, 2). In 1913, Ford made use of the conveyor belt in his factories, and began making automobiles on a moving conveyor line, something that had not been tried before. This was a smashing success, speeding up the assembly process to the point that by 1927, more than 15 million Model T cars had been made.

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German industrial giant, bought the plant and folded it into a
global enterprise
twice as many
workers
sent production to Mexico
David J. Spyker, once the plant manager and now vice
president of a Siemens unit with operations around the
2,700 jobs from a town of 8,000 people.
putting
millions of Americans to work for new owners
dollar losing
much value
200,000 Michigan residents worked for subsidiaries of foreign companies as of 2005
She
had promised to persuade the company to stay, assembling a package of
more than $120 million in state and local tax credits. The city offered
to build a new plant. The local union agreed to give up as much as $33
million a year in wages.

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