Transportation Revolution

Question 1

What was the Pyroscaphe Jouffroy?

Answer 1

First steamship to conquer rivers, but quit after 10 minutes.

Question 2

What was the Rob Roy?

Answer 2

First real steamship. Seaworthy, not ocean going.

Question 3

Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel? What was a coincidence of his?

Answer 3

Most famous engineer of all time, triggered, if not speed up, the transportation revolution.

Every time he completed something he got injured.

Question 4

What was a concern of the Great western railway company when they met with Brunel? What was Brunel’s response?

Answer 4

They were concerned with how long he wanted this to be. He said “let’s make it even longer”

Question 5

What happened to the Great Western steamship when it was just finished and on her way to cross the Atlantic ocean?

Answer 5

Caught fire, Brunel fell and hit the captain and became injured and paralyzed for 3 months.

Question 6

What was the Great Britain? What was revolutionary about it?

Answer 6

ocean liner, a complete revolution. ships today are based off this model.

Had no side wheels, but rather propeller invented by Brunel.

Question 7

What was the Great Eastern?

Answer 7

“The 8th wonder of the world”, would be the largest project of the industrial revolution by the end of its design.

Question 8

What did Brunel build for the great exhibition?

Answer 8

Tallest water towers ever, holds water at the top and creates pressure in order to work the water features outside the Crystal Palace.

Question 9

What is the great men theory?

Answer 9

An idea that explains that history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes.

Question 10

What did Richard Trevithick design? What was so unique about it?

Answer 10

Designed a new high pressure steam engine in 1799. Opposite of Watt’s model, Trevithick’s would gain horsepower with more steam. Small, light and powerful.

Question 11

What is the puffing devil? How did it come to an end?

Answer 11

Full-size road vehicle. Produced a lot of black smoke and sparks.

Drivers were drunk and forgot about parked puffing devil, it melted outside.

Question 12

What came along in 1804, 10 years before Stephenson?

Answer 12

Penydarren locomotive.

Question 13

What is the ‘catch me if you can’?

Answer 13

A railway track made by Trevithick, goes 20 km/h.

Question 14

Who would be regarded as the inventor of the locomotive but wasn’t really?

Answer 14

Stephenson.

Question 15

What was the Trevithick-Cornish boiler?

Answer 15

A boiler still used today, you get a modern locomotive when you put it together with Trevithick’s engine.

Question 16

Why wasn’t Trevithick well recognized? What happened to him?

Answer 16

Not recognized because of James Watt, he was the one who slowed down technological progress at the time. Watt would discredit Trevithick and his work.

Trevithick died alone, homeless, and in poverty.

Question 17

What was significant about railroads?

Answer 17

The social and biological change that came about. For the first time, poor people would be able to move as fast as wealthy people.

Genetic pool changed, spread of the poor around different landscapes.

Question 18

What is the historiography of the internal combustion engine?

Answer 18

internalistic to externalistic.

Question 19

What is the historiography of the high pressure steam engine?

Answer 19

Moving away from the ‘great men theory’

Question 20

Who was Joseph Lenoir? Was his product commercially successful?

Answer 20

First one who got it right for internal combustion, just 8 years after great exhibition.

First one to get it manufactured in factories.

Was commercially successful, stationary.

Question 21

Who was Nikolaus Otto? What was his story?

Answer 21

A grocer, a nobody. Made various mods to Lenoir’s design, 4 stroke engine.

Created engine with two assistants, fired assistants after engine was designed, he was afraid that they would tell someone he wasn’t the true designer, Lenoir had the patent.

Question 22

What did Karl Benz do?

Answer 22

Created an automobile fueled by gas.

Invented Benz Motorwagon, it became commercially available and turned out to be a disaster.

Question 23

Who were Otto’s two assistants? What did they do?

Answer 23

• Wilhelm Maybach
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
• Daimler paid for Maybach’s schooling
• Started Daimler co.

Question 24

Who produced the modern gasoline engine? What was another name for it?

Answer 24

Daimler and Maybach, grandfather clock engine.

Question 25

Who invented the motorcycle? Did it immediately become commercially available? What is a neat fact about this?

Answer 25

• Daimler and Maybach
• Never became commercially available
• Maybach’s pants caught fire

Question 26

How soon after Benz’s car was Daimler and Maybach’s car made?

Answer 26

1 year.

Question 27

What was the Phoenix engine?

Answer 27

A revolutionary 4 cylinder engine.

Question 28

For whom did Daimler co. make a racecar for? Who was it named after? What atomizer did it use?

Answer 28

Emil Jellinek, named after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek. Used the Heron nozzle as an atomizer.

Question 29

What did the internal combustion engine lead to?

Answer 29

The dream of flight.