Transpo ! Flashcards
auto car, motor car or car
Automobile
a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting goods or
passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor.
AUTOMOBILE
The word automobile comes from the ancient Greek
word αὐτός (autós, meaning _________)?
Self
the Latin word
mobilis
(movable)
the Latin word carrus or carrum
Wheeled vehicle
the Middle English word carre
Cart
the Gaulish word karros
Gallic Chariot
________ is considered as one of the most important
mechanical inventions of all times.
The wheel
The wheel has been
used by man since the beginning of ________
civilization.
The invention of the wheel perhaps happened in
the _________?
late Neolithic age.
Invention of the potter’s wheel,
Chalcolithic (Ubaid period)
BC?
4500 BC
Chalcolithic, earliest wheeled vehicles,
“domestication of the horse”
BC?
4500-3300 BC
Earliest wheeled vehicle
Chalcolithic
Early Bronze Age
BC?
3300-2200 BC
Middle Bronze Age, invention of the
spoked wheel and the chariot
BC
2200-1550 BC
History tells us that wheel was most likely invented ________
in around ______?
Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) and 3500 BC
Age of the wheel
5500 years old
first use of the wheel for transportation was in ______? _____BC?
Mesopotamian chariots in 3200 BC
Egyptians started using wheel with
Spokes
introduced an iron rim around
the wheel in the first millennium BC.
Celtic-chariots
Types of wheels
Wooden Wheel, Wheel with spokes, wheel
is a vehicle designed for transport, using two
wheels.
Wheel cart
A _____is pulled or pushed by one or more
people.
handcart
The draught animals used for carts
horses or ponies, mules, oxen, water buffalo ,donkeys, goats, large dogs
Types of carts
horse-cart
dog- cart
bullock-cart or ox-cart
A ______ is a two-wheeled
vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle)
bullock-cart or ox-cart
How many men would be needed to equal the power of
a horse?
10–12 men were needed to equal
the power of one horse.
A bullock-cart or ox-cart is a __________ pulled by
oxen(draught animal).
wo-wheeled
vehicle
a German engineer
designed and patented the first practical
model (Fig.1.8) in 1885. This model used
internal combustion engine and was
called Motorwagen.
Karl benz
Benz
& Cie., which was founded in
1883
