Basic Concepts of Automotive

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very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by

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steam engines

Question 2

built the first automobile

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Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
of France

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

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internal combustion engine

Question 5

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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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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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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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

Question 9

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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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

Question 11

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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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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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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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

Question 15

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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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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four-stroke engine,

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Otto cycle

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The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by

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Sir Dougald Clerk.

Question 19

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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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

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Daimler’s first built two-wheeled vehicle

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Reitwegen or Riding Carriage

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

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Karl Benz

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

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Daimler

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

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Wilhelm Maybach

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One of the most important landmarks in engine design comes from

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Nicolaus August Otto

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invented an effective gas motor engine in 1875

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Nicolaus August Otto

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

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"Otto Cycle Engine,"

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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

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

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Benz

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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

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

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1885 Daimler-Maybach

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

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Daimler

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

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Daimler

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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

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Mercedes automobile

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Wilhelm Maybach

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

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Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor

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

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Panhard-Levassor

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

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Levassor

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

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Armand Peugeot.

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

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Peugeot car

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

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Charles and Frank Duryea.

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were bicycle makers who became interested in gasoline engines and automobiles

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Charles and Frank Duryea

Question 43

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

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1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile,

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1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, was built by

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American car manufacturer, Ransome Eli Olds

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

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Old

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

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Olds

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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

Question 48

Ford made his first car, called the "______,"

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quadricycle