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The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor. The history of the automobile reflects a progression that took place worldwide. It is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile (Wise 129). ... Historians who accept that early steam-powered road vehicles were automobiles, feel that Nicolas Cugnot was the inventor of the first automobile (Wise 17). ...
The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 (Wise 17). Many history books say otherwise, stating that either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz invented the automobile. ... However, it is wrong to say that either man invented, "the," automobile. ...
In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the worlds first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. ... On March 8, 1886, Daimler took a stagecoach and modified it to hold his engine, and in doing so designing the worlds first four-wheeled automobile. ... Also in 1889, Daimler and Maybach built their first automobile from the ground up (they intended the vehicle to only be considered and automobile). The new Daimler automobile had a four-speed transmission and could reach speeds of 10 mph. ...
The first automobile to be mass-produced in the United States was the 1901, Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built by the American car manufacturer Ransome Eli Old. Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and started the Detroit area automobile industry (Flink 26). ... Selden, who had never built an automobile, held a patent on a, "road engine. ...
The automobile has had a greater impact on the lives of twentieth-century Americans than the frontier had on our nineteenth-century forebears. ...
But by the late 1950s, the automobile was no longer a historically progressive force for change. ... In the late 1990s and early 2000s, in the face of impending automobile-induced depression, the United States stands at the threshold of a new era of historical development.
Approximate Word count = 1685
Approximate Pages = 6.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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