Motorcars

Question 1

why did motorcars develop?

Answer 1

1. Animals can get tired or sick (and then you have no faster transport other than walking)
2. Animals need food, care and medicine. This can be expensive.
3. Animals some times don’t behave

Question 2

When were the first self-propelled vehicles invented?

Answer 2

18th century

Question 3

What powered the first self-propelled vehicles?

Answer 3

Steam

Question 4

What was the name of the first car, and when was it invented?

Answer 4

• Steam Wagon
• 1769

Question 5

Describe the ‘Steam Wagon’

Answer 5

• Travelled at about 4km/h
• Had one wheel at front, and two at back
• Steam boiler was at the front

Question 6

What other ways of powering cars were developed after the steam boiler, and by the end of 19th century?

Answer 6

• petroleum (petrol)
• electricity

Question 7

What type of fuel became the type that was used from the 1880s onwards (i.e most succesful)?

Answer 7

Petrol

Question 8

Who invented the first petrol car, and when?

Answer 8

• Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Willhelm Maybach
• 1880s

Question 9

How were the first cars made?

Answer 9

Individually:

1. First parts made
2. Then parts assembled into car

Question 10

What did the American car maker develop in 1913 that revolutionised the car industry, and why?

Answer 10

Assembly line:

• line of machines and people that makes it quicker to produce many things
• Speeded up the production time
• called MASS PRODUCTION (products made in large quantities since quicker)

Question 11

Why did more people buy cars in the early 1900s?

Answer 11

Mass production made the cars cheaper to buy (since they were quicker to make)