Few people know that the first vehicle able to transport people or tow heavy loads with the help of a mechanical device drove in France as early as 1769. It was a steam engine driven cart designed and built by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot.It was used for a period of two years by the army as an artillery tractor. Since this "car" was quite impractical it was abandoned and no further development of steam driven cars took place in France. In England however several steam engine driven vehicles were developed between 1800 and 1865. In 1865 the Locomotive Act became active requiring self propelled vehicles on public roads to be preceded by a walking man waving a red flag and blowing a horn.
The development of the stationary steam engine was an essential early element of the Industrial Revolution; however, for most of the period of the Industrial Revolution, the majority of industries still relied on wind and water power as well as horse- and man-power for driving small machines. The first real attempt at industrial use of steam power was due to Thomas Savery in 1698. He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum and pressure water pump, that generated about one horsepower (hp) and was used in numerous water works and tried in a few mines (hence its "brand name", The Miner's Friend), but it was not a success since it was limited in pumping height and prone to boiler explosions. Newcomen's steam powered atmospheric engine was the first practical engine. Subsequent steam engines were to power the Industrial Revolution The first safe and successful steam power plant was introduced by Thomas Newcomen before 1712.
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Hybrid Cars The first self-propelled vehicle which was a military tractor was invented in the 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer and also a mechanic, as recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France. (http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm). It uses a steam engine to power this vehicle, which was then evolved into electric cars which uses batteries to generate its energy. The most commonly used in these modern days is the gas type which uses petrol and gases as the main source of energy. Gases are non-renewable source of energy and therefore after several decades of the evolution of cars, the world is suffering from depletion.
There has been much heated debate about when the first car came out. Some say by a French engineer named Nicholas Joseph Cugnut with his steam powered military tractor in 1769 (242 years ago) and others say it was Carl Friedrich Benzs who gave us the first automobile that ran on gasoline in 1885 (126 years ago) but I can tell you the first electric car was by Anderson of Scotland in 1832 – 1839 (179 years ago) (Discovery Channel, 2010). Cars have been around for a very long time. Who would've ever thought that cars would be life necessity? Who would've ever thought that anyone and everyone would be driving a car?
This technology was not rediscovered until the 16th century when the writings of Ancient Rome and Greece were translated. Still, their technology was not put to use until a full century later. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century that engineers began to perfect their craft . There were several manufactures producing fire engines by this time and Richard Newsham was one of them. His engines were gaining popularity over most of the other engines which were basically copies of the Dutch Engine.
The Chlor-alkali Industry In 1800, Cruickshank was the first to prepare chlorine electrochemically, however; the process was not very important until the development of an adequate generator and of synthetic graphite for anodes in 1892. These two developments made the chlor-alkali process possible on an industrial scale. In 1885 the diaphragm cell process was introduced, followed by the mercury cell process in 1892. Instead, the membrane cell process was only developed much later, in 1970. Since then, activated titanium anodes in the diaphragm have substituted graphite anodes and mercury cell processes.
The beginning of the automobile is one of the most profound and important chapters in the development of American culture. Over the course of the paper, I will talk about a brief history of the automobile, how it created new opportunities and industries, some of the negative effects of the creation of automobile and how it greatly impacted the lifestyle of Americans. Before the automobile, people traveled by means of bicycles, trains, and horse-drawn carriages. These methods of transportation were slow, limited and not private. Up until the about 1880, inventors experimented with building a "horseless carriage."
The chemicals involved in creating the metals and internal parts of the automobile also do not differ between electric and traditional automobiles. Taking into account the fact that there have been numerous instances where chemicals would leak out of the factory and into the ground outside, electric cars are starting to lose their eco-friendliness. If electric vehicles really are environmentally friendly, their production process should be also. Additionally, electric automobiles require a new kind of battery that has yet to have its lifespan measured. Although lithium-ion batteries have been used for years now, the scaled-up versions in electric cars have yet to be properly tested and examined (Newman).
Why Gas...Go Electric When my family came home with an electric vehicle, I wondered what was wrong with our gas vehicle. I had never heard of an electric vehicle, or the advantages of owning one. This led me to the conclusion that an electric vehicle was unnecessary and just a waste of money. What I did not realise was that there was so much more to an electric vehicle than just that the vehicle was a unique design. As upon learning more about this vehicle, it led me to many questions, that I now have confident answers to.
Electric VS. Hybrid: In today’s car market there are two very different types of cars that are being produced to fight the high prices of gas during these troubling economic times. They are the electric and gas hybrid cars that are seen on TV. Both cars were built with one thing in mind, which is to conserve on gasoline and help reduce the pollution to the planet. The major difference is that the electric car uses absolutely no gas and emits no pollution.