EVOLUTION of

MOTOR
VEHICLES
GROUP 2 – Fundamentals of Traffic Management
 Is one of the greatest
inventions that appeared for the
last three hundred years. The
inventions in transportation
came along with the numerous
inventions during the period of
“Industrial Revolution”.
Was perfected
in the 1760’s by
James Watt.
B. French, Scottish, and American inventors
attempted to apply the steam engine in water
navigation.
Horse-drawn
wagons with
wooden wheels
and rails.
 Adapted the
primitive steam
locomotives to
the mine railway
between 1797
and 1813.
Built and equipped
the 32-km
Stockton and
Darlington
railway.
 It was in the US where tremendous
growth in rail transport system occurred
that by 1840 more than 4,800 kms (3,000
mi) railroads were already operating in the
eastern state.
 began with the adaption
of COACH SPRING about
1650.

were so bad that the coaches could

average only 4 mhp (6.4 km/h) and the mail was
usually carried by boys on horses.
 introduced his first fast mail
coach in March of 1785 and by 1800, the
English coach system was in full swing.

Modern ancestors(Bicycle) - HOBBY

HORSE or dan horse
The wheels were made of wood,
with tires of iron, and the riders pushed
themselves along with their feet on the
ground.
1. Karl Von Drais – in 1817 introduced a steerable
wheel, creating the “draisienne,” or “dandy horse”.
2. Kirkpatrick
Macmillan – in 1838
made the first machine
with pedals, which were
attached to and drove
the rear wheel by means
of cranks.
H. MOTOR VEHICLE
The first mode
of transportation
to challegence
the railroads
1. FERDINAND VERBIEST - built the first
steam-powered vehicle around 1672 as a toy
for the Chenese Emperor.

2. NICOLAS JOSEPT
CUGNOT – demonstrated
his fardier a vapeur (“steam
dray”), an experimental
steam-driven artillery tractor.
3. WILLIAM MURDOCH – built a working model a steam
carriage in Redruth.
4. RICHARD TREVITHICK – ran a full-sized vehicle on
the road in Camborne.
5. OLIVER EVANS – granted the
first automobile patent in the
United States.
6. FRANCOIZ ISAA DE RIVAZ – built and engine
powered by internal combustion of a hydrogen and
oxygen misture. (Gasoline)
7. JOSEF BOZEK – built an oil-fired
steam car.

8. SAMUEL BROWN – tested his hydrogen-fuelled

internal combustion engine by using it to propel a
vehicle up Shooter’s Hill in south-east London.

9. WALTER HANCOCK – built and operated

steam buses in London.
10. CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHONTEIN –
discovered in principle the hydrogen fuel cell
(diesel).
11. CHARLES GOODYEAR – invented the
vulcanized rubber for tires.

12. ROBERT WILLIAM

THOMSON – invented the
vulcanized rubber for tire. His
invention worked well but was
costly to produce.
13. JEAN JOSEPT ETIENNE LENOIR – also
known as Jean J. Lenoir, developed the internal
combustion engine. The first commercially
successful of its kind.
14. GASTON PLANTE –
invented the lead-acid
battery and ANYOS
JEDLIK invented the
electric motor in 1828.
(electric-powered cars)
15. LENOIR’S HIPPOMOBILE – a hydrogen-gas-
fuelled one-cylindered internal combustion engine
made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont,
covering come nine kilometres in about three hours.

16. HENRY SETH TAYLOR – demonstrated his 4-

wheeled “steam buggy” at the Stanstead Fair in
Stanstead, Quebec.
17. SIEGFRIED MARCUS – the first man to propel a
vehicle by means of gasoline – known as “the first
Marcus car”.
18. DR. J.W. CARHART – invented
the first steam powered carriage-
sized automobile suitable for use on
existing wagon roads in the United
States.
19. AMEDEE BOLLEE – produced the first “real”
automobile – self-propelled steam road vehicles to
transport groups of passengers.
20. GEORGE B. SELDEN – filed for a patent which
included not only the engine but its use in a 4-
wheeled car.
21. ENRICO BERNARDI –
patented a 0.024 horsepower
122cc one-cylinder petrol
motor. (First automobile &
motorcycle)

22. MARCUS – patent for a low-voltage ignition

system of the magneto type.
23. EDOUARD DELAMARE-DEBOUTTEVILLE – vehicle
was patented and trialled.
24. KARL BENZ – built his first automobile in Mannheim
and he was granted a patent for his automobile on 29
January 1886.
25. DAIMLER – built the first high speed
internal combustion engine.

26. JOHN BOYD DUNLOP – First

practical pneumatic tire (inflated with air)
for bicycle and was granted patent in
1888.
 27. FIRST PRODUCTION OF AUTOMOBILES – in
Germany by KARL BENZ, and in France by EMILE
ROGER.
28. GOTTLIEB DAIMLER &
WILHELM MAYBACH – credited for
the first motorcycle in 1866.

29. PANHARD ET LAVASSOR OF

FRANCE – first company formed
exclusively to build automobiles,
which also introduced the first four
cylinder engine.
30. FIRST HORSELESS-CARRIAGE – appeared in
the U.S.
31. CHARLES & FRANK DURYEA – founded the
Duryea Motor Wagon Company, becoming the first
American automobile manufacturing company.

32. RUDOLF DIESEL –

developed the diesel
engine also known as a
compression-ignition
engine.
33. ANDREA MICHELIN – the first person to use
pneumatic tires on automobile tires but not successful.

34. NESSELSDORFER WAGENBAU (TATRA) – first

motor car in central Europe and one of the first factory-
made cars in the world, the president automobile.

35. HENRY FORD – introduced the

MODEL T, which was proved so
popular that by 1914, FORD had
adopted mass production methods to
meet the demand.
36. PHILIP STRAUSS – invented the first successful
automobile tire with an air-filled inner tube (interior).

37. FELIX WANKEL – a German mathematician,

developed an advanced-type of engine, named after
him, that operates very differently from gas and
diesel engines.
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CDI 4 Traffic Management

Evolution of Motor Vehicles
GROUP 2

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