General information about cars

The car is probably the most practical invention of mankind. It makes our lives more convenient and easier, it makes us more mobile and can be our heart beat faster. can at this miracle of technology we do not today. From primitive carriages with petrol up to electric sports coupe, the car has developed enormously and will develop further. But until the car was up to the product what it is today, many years have passed.

Beginnings of the car

Early on, humanity dreamed of a mobile base. As early as the 18th Century were first ideas for driving without a muscle. Many ideas were only ideas and were not realized, because it simply lacked the means. The first pioneer of the engine development, thus indirectly of the car, Denis Papin, Isaac Newton and James Watt, and James Watt as the inventor of the steam engine, the largest Leadership position deserves.

With the invention of the steam engine, Watt paved the way for further research. Only with the invention of the first gasoline-powered car end of the 19th Century by Siegfried Marcus, could be seen great development of the car, as inspired by this invention, developed only few years later, Karl Benz's first car with a combustion engine as we know it today. End 19th Century witnessed the car a boom, because cars contribute to this time very futuristic. A Demonstrate the rapid development of the car were the speed records that were set in tact. Record holder at the time in 1900 Belgian Camille Jenatzy was over at a speed of 100 km / h - with an electric car. A sensation at the time.