Automotive Archaeology Excavating the Design of the First Car

The Continental is revered in the automotive design world for its unadorned surfaces and the boldness of its horizontal lines. So-called ... Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times. In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage. ... Bloodsucker_. •. The design is very human. Reply reply. red1q7. •. See, older cars WERE better, its over 100 years old and still drives. /s. The first decade was characterised by a number of developments that would become standard features of modern cars. The decade saw the ... The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car. The Model T was manufactured on ... Although the original Benz car (a three-wheeled vehicle, the Motorwagen, now preserved in Munich) first ran early in 1885, its design was ... Henry Ford's first vehicle rode on four bicycle wheels and was powered by a four-horsepower engine. Instead of a steering wheel, the Quadricycle had a tiller. In the first of a monthly column on automotive design, Gautam Sen and Avik Chattopadhyay trace the earliest inventions, from da Vinci's ... The world was introduced with automobiles only in the late 19th century. At that time, the car design was inspired by a horse carriage and was focused on ... Henry Ford built his first automobile with friends while working as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit.