Transportation Revolution Flashcards
(29 cards)
What was the Pyroscaphe Jouffroy?
First steamship to conquer rivers, but quit after 10 minutes.
What was the Rob Roy?
First real steamship. Seaworthy, not ocean going.
Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel? What was a coincidence of his?
Most famous engineer of all time, triggered, if not speed up, the transportation revolution.
Every time he completed something he got injured.
What was a concern of the Great western railway company when they met with Brunel? What was Brunel’s response?
They were concerned with how long he wanted this to be. He said “let’s make it even longer”
What happened to the Great Western steamship when it was just finished and on her way to cross the Atlantic ocean?
Caught fire, Brunel fell and hit the captain and became injured and paralyzed for 3 months.
What was the Great Britain? What was revolutionary about it?
ocean liner, a complete revolution. ships today are based off this model.
Had no side wheels, but rather propeller invented by Brunel.
What was the Great Eastern?
“The 8th wonder of the world”, would be the largest project of the industrial revolution by the end of its design.
What did Brunel build for the great exhibition?
Tallest water towers ever, holds water at the top and creates pressure in order to work the water features outside the Crystal Palace.
What is the great men theory?
An idea that explains that history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes.
What did Richard Trevithick design? What was so unique about it?
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.
What is the puffing devil? How did it come to an end?
Full-size road vehicle. Produced a lot of black smoke and sparks.
Drivers were drunk and forgot about parked puffing devil, it melted outside.
What came along in 1804, 10 years before Stephenson?
Penydarren locomotive.
What is the ‘catch me if you can’?
A railway track made by Trevithick, goes 20 km/h.
Who would be regarded as the inventor of the locomotive but wasn’t really?
Stephenson.
What was the Trevithick-Cornish boiler?
A boiler still used today, you get a modern locomotive when you put it together with Trevithick’s engine.
Why wasn’t Trevithick well recognized? What happened to him?
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.
What was significant about railroads?
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.
What is the historiography of the internal combustion engine?
internalistic to externalistic.
What is the historiography of the high pressure steam engine?
Moving away from the ‘great men theory’
Who was Joseph Lenoir? Was his product commercially successful?
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.
Who was Nikolaus Otto? What was his story?
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.
What did Karl Benz do?
Created an automobile fueled by gas.
Invented Benz Motorwagon, it became commercially available and turned out to be a disaster.
Who were Otto’s two assistants? What did they do?
- Wilhelm Maybach
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
- Daimler paid for Maybach’s schooling
- Started Daimler co.
Who produced the modern gasoline engine? What was another name for it?
Daimler and Maybach, grandfather clock engine.
