Transportation Revolution The Role of Early Car Designs in Modern Mobility

The design of almost every car built today still partly relies, without question or comment, on the three big changes made in that decade. For a few centuries there were different variations of steam powered vehicles that were early prototypes for the modern car, but the first ... ... car designers also began to incorporate new technologies into their designs. The 1938 Buick Y-Job, for example, was the first car to feature ... Images: Alamy & Gautam Sen. Although the very first automobile had been invented by a Frenchman, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, in the year 1770, ... Design and construction of the Patent Motorwagen ... A great deal of the construction for the Patent Motorwagen was inspired by bicycles of the ... 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 ... Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. To understand our fascination with the car, we must go all the way back to 1672 when, possibly, the first “car” was made, a self-driving trolley ... For its pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, Ford Motor Company brought in Walt Disney to design a "unique and memorable entertainment adventure" that ... Have you ever built a model of your first car? This is a replica of my first car, a '53 Studebaker Champion. I bought the 1:1 at a police ...