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Basic Concepts of Automotive Flashcards

1
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very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by

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steam engines

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2
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built the first automobile

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Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
of France

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3
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invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered
vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles.

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Daimler and Benz

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4
Q

is an engine that uses
the explosive combustion of fuel to push a piston
within a cylinder

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internal combustion engine

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5
Q

The different types of fuel commonly
used for car combustion engines are gasoline

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gasoline or petrol, diesel, kerosene

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6
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Dutch physicist, who designed
(but never built) an internal combustion engine that
was to be fueled with gunpowder.

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Christian Huygens

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7
Q

invented an
internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen
and oxygen for fuel.

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Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland

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8
Q

English engineer, who
adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to
burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a
vehicle up Shooter’s Hill in London.

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Samuel Brown

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9
Q

Belgian-born engineer, who
invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric
spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas.

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Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir

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10
Q

attached an improved engine (using petroleum
and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that
managed to complete a historic fifty-mile road trip.

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Lenoir

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11
Q

He, a French civil
engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke
engine (French patent #52,593, January 16, 1862).

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Alphonse Beau de Rochas

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12
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Austrian engineer, who, built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive.

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Siegfried Marcus

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13
Q

designed a vehicle that briefly
ran at 10 mph, which a few historians have considered as the forerunner
of the modern automobile by being the world’s first gasoline-powered
vehicle

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Marcus

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14
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German engineers, whom improved on Lenoir’s and de
Rochas’ designs and invented a more efficient gas
engine.

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Eugen Langen, and
Nicolaus August Otto

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15
Q

He is an American engineer,
developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene
engine (it used two external pumping cylinders).
However, it was considered the first safe and
practical oil engine.

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George Brayton

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16
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invented and later patented a
successful four-stroke engine, known as the “Otto cycle”.

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Nicolaus August Otto

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17
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four-stroke engine,

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Otto cycle

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18
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The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by

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Sir Dougald Clerk.

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19
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French engineer, who, built a
single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not
certain if he did indeed build a car, however,

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Edouard Delamare-Debouteville

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20
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invented what is often recognized as
the prototype of the modern gas engine — with a vertical
cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor
(patented in 1887).

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Gottlieb Daimler

21
Q

Daimler’s first built two-wheeled vehicle

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Reitwegen or Riding Carriage

22
Q

received the first patent (DRP No. 37435)
for a gas-fueled car.

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Karl Benz

23
Q

built an improved four-stroke engine with
mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.

A

Daimler

24
Q

built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.

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Wilhelm Maybach

25
Q

One of the most important landmarks in engine
design comes from

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Nicolaus August Otto

26
Q

invented an effective gas motor engine in 1875

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Nicolaus August Otto

27
Q

built the
first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine
called the

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“Otto Cycle Engine,”

28
Q

designed
and built the world’s first practical automobile to be
powered by an internal-combustion engine.

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German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz

29
Q

first
inventor to integrate an internal combustion engine with a
chassis - designing both together.

A

Benz

30
Q

took Otto’s internal
combustion engine a step further and patented what is
generally recognized as the prototype of the modern
gas engine.

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Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach

31
Q

engine was small,
lightweight, fast, used a gasoline-injected carburetor,
and had a vertical cylinder.

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1885 Daimler-Maybach

32
Q

considered the first inventor to have invented a practical
internal-combustion engine.

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Daimler

33
Q

V-slanted two cylinder,
four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves.

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Daimler

34
Q

built their first automobile from
the ground up, they did not adapt another purpose
vehicle as they had always been done previously. The
new Daimler automobile had a four-speed transmission
and obtained speeds of 10 mph.

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Daimler and Maybach

35
Q

Mercedes automobile

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Wilhelm Maybach

36
Q

were partners in a
woodworking machinery business when they decided to
become car manufacturers.

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Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor

37
Q

made vehicles with a pedal-operated
clutch, a chain transmission leading to a change-speed
gearbox, and a front radiator.

A

Panhard-Levassor

38
Q

first
designer to move the engine to the front of the car and
use a rear-wheel-drive layout.

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Levassor

39
Q

Panhard and Levassor also shared the licensing rights
to Daimler motors with:

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Armand Peugeot.

40
Q

went on to win the first car race held in France,

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Peugeot
car

41
Q

America’s first gasoline-powered commercial car
manufacturers were:

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Charles and Frank Duryea.

42
Q

were bicycle makers who became interested in
gasoline engines and automobiles

A

Charles and Frank Duryea

43
Q

The first automobile to be mass produced in the United
States was the

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1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile,

44
Q

1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, was built by

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American car manufacturer, Ransome Eli Olds

45
Q

invented the basic concept of the assembly line and
started the Detroit area automobile industry.

A

Old

46
Q

invented the basic concept of the assembly line and
started the Detroit area automobile industry.

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Olds

47
Q

invented an
improved assembly line and installed the first conveyor belt-based
assembly line in his car factory in Ford’s Highland Park, Michigan
plant, around 1913-14.

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American car manufacturer, Henry Ford

48
Q

Ford made his first car, called
the “______,”

A

quadricycle

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