Lecture 11: transportation revolution

Question 1

what was the first opperational locomotive?

Answer 1

Pennydarren locomotive (trevethick)

Question 2

who created the first engine that was able to carry its own weight ?

Answer 2

Trevethicks high pressure engine

Question 3

planes were invented as transportation technology.

Answer 3

False: war technology

Question 4

what was the first engine that worked and was commercially available? who made it

Answer 4

Joseph Lenoir

1856 internal combustion engine

Question 5

the first car was called the … made by who?

Answer 5

“horseless carriage”

maybach/daimler

Question 6

what was the first multi-cylinder engine called? describe it

Answer 6

Phenoix engine

• 4 cyl
• cams, carbs, glow plugs
• light and powerful

Question 7

what did trevethick call his engine with wheels on it?

Answer 7

Puffing devil

Question 8

what was responsible for biological and social change?

Answer 8

railroads

Question 9

Maybach’s and Daimler’s modern gasoline engine was refered as

Answer 9

the “grandfather clock engine”

Question 10

discuss the design of the grandfather clock engine

Answer 10

• glow plugs
• early carboretor
• installed into a frame

Question 11

who hired 2 assistants to built the 4 stroke engine based on Lenoir’s design?

Answer 11

Nicolas Otto

Question 12

what was “catch me who can”

Answer 12

the performance that trevethick displayed to show his superiority of his locomotive compared to horses (speed was important here)

Question 13

who intented the first modern automobile?

Answer 13

Karl Benz

Question 14

the transportation revolution was initially driven by the …

Answer 14

high pressure engine

Question 15

the puffing devil was used to scare peasants

Answer 15

true

Question 16

how was trevethick’s engine expandable on horse powers?

Answer 16

increasing pressure in the steam

Question 17

in the 1850s, why did they struggle to make engines last?

Answer 17

problem with metalurgy -> they didnt have the alloys

Question 18

who got the full credit for the invention of the locomotive?

Answer 18

Stephenson

Question 19

who was believed to have invented the steam engine?

Answer 19

James Watt

Question 20

how does the cornish boiler work?

Answer 20

• fire box inside water
• exhaust used to preheat water
• invented safety plug and valves

Question 21

Trevethick’s locomotive is the high pressure steam engine. t or f

Answer 21

false: it is the cornish boiler and the steam engine

Question 22

what was the first car that used a modern spark plug and carboretor system?

Answer 22

Mercedes Jellinik (herons atomizer used here)

Question 23

who was responsible for slowing down the technological revolution due to his relentlessness towards an invention that usurped his?

Answer 23

James Watt

Question 24

what did Watt regard Trevethick’s high pressure engine as?

Answer 24

an atomic bomb

Question 25

who invented the high pressure engine?

A) Heron

B) Papin

C) newcomen

D) Trevithick

Answer 25

D) trevethick

Question 26

Emil Jellinek was known for the introduction of the _______. this was done to explore a new ignition system for his race car

Answer 26

Spark Plugs

Question 27

what did the internal combustion engine make possible?

Answer 27

aviation

Question 28

the historiography of the internal combustion engine went from

A) internalistic to externalistic

B)externalistic to internalistic

Answer 28

A

Question 29

who invented the locomotive?

Answer 29

Trevethick

Question 30

Otto made the automobile fueled by gas

Answer 30

False: Karl Benz did

Question 31

who were the 2 assistants fired by Otto?

Answer 31

Daimler and maybach

Question 32

what else did Trevethick invent aside from the high pressure engine and the locomotive?

Answer 32

the cornish boiler

Question 33

what was the first self-powered workable road vehicle ?

Answer 33

Puffing devil

Question 34

what was the first engine to run entirely on steam?

Answer 34

trevethick’s high pressure engine