Lecture 11: transportation revolution Flashcards
what was the first opperational locomotive?
Pennydarren locomotive (trevethick)
who created the first engine that was able to carry its own weight ?
Trevethicks high pressure engine
planes were invented as transportation technology.
False: war technology
what was the first engine that worked and was commercially available? who made it
Joseph Lenoir
1856 internal combustion engine
the first car was called the … made by who?
“horseless carriage”
maybach/daimler
what was the first multi-cylinder engine called? describe it
Phenoix engine
- 4 cyl
- cams, carbs, glow plugs
- light and powerful
what did trevethick call his engine with wheels on it?
Puffing devil
what was responsible for biological and social change?
railroads
Maybach’s and Daimler’s modern gasoline engine was refered as
the “grandfather clock engine”
discuss the design of the grandfather clock engine
- glow plugs
- early carboretor
- installed into a frame
who hired 2 assistants to built the 4 stroke engine based on Lenoir’s design?
Nicolas Otto
what was “catch me who can”
the performance that trevethick displayed to show his superiority of his locomotive compared to horses (speed was important here)
who intented the first modern automobile?
Karl Benz
the transportation revolution was initially driven by the …
high pressure engine
the puffing devil was used to scare peasants
true
how was trevethick’s engine expandable on horse powers?
increasing pressure in the steam
in the 1850s, why did they struggle to make engines last?
problem with metalurgy -> they didnt have the alloys
who got the full credit for the invention of the locomotive?
Stephenson
who was believed to have invented the steam engine?
James Watt
how does the cornish boiler work?
- fire box inside water
- exhaust used to preheat water
- invented safety plug and valves
Trevethick’s locomotive is the high pressure steam engine. t or f
false: it is the cornish boiler and the steam engine
what was the first car that used a modern spark plug and carboretor system?
Mercedes Jellinik (herons atomizer used here)
who was responsible for slowing down the technological revolution due to his relentlessness towards an invention that usurped his?
James Watt
what did Watt regard Trevethick’s high pressure engine as?
an atomic bomb
who invented the high pressure engine?
A) Heron
B) Papin
C) newcomen
D) Trevithick
D) trevethick
Emil Jellinek was known for the introduction of the _______. this was done to explore a new ignition system for his race car
Spark Plugs
what did the internal combustion engine make possible?
aviation
the historiography of the internal combustion engine went from
A) internalistic to externalistic
B)externalistic to internalistic
A
who invented the locomotive?
Trevethick
Otto made the automobile fueled by gas
False: Karl Benz did
who were the 2 assistants fired by Otto?
Daimler and maybach
what else did Trevethick invent aside from the high pressure engine and the locomotive?
the cornish boiler
what was the first self-powered workable road vehicle ?
Puffing devil
what was the first engine to run entirely on steam?
trevethick’s high pressure engine
