The car is 7.32 meters long and 2.2 meters high. A big boiler like a pear is placed on the frame. The front wheel diameter is 1.28 m, and the rear wheel diameter is1.50m. When moving forward, the direction is controlled by the front wheel, and the heating needs to be stopped every 12 ~ 15 min. The running speed is 3.
The second car was made by 177 1, but it didn't really run. It is now on display at the National Gallery in Paris, France. Although Zhu Niu's invention failed, it is a watershed between ancient means of transportation (driven by people, animals or sails) and modern means of transportation (driven by power machinery), which is of epoch-making significance.
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The world's first modern car;
1879, German engineer karl benz successfully tested the two-stroke experimental engine for the first time. 1June, 883, founded "Ben Ci Company and Rheinland Gas Engine Factory".
1885, he made the first Ben Ci patented motor vehicle in Mannheim, which was a three-wheeled vehicle with a two-stroke single-cylinder gasoline engine and 0.9 horsepower. This car has some basic characteristics of modern cars, such as spark ignition, water cooling cycle, steel tube frame, leaf spring suspension, rear wheel drive, front wheel steering and brake handle.
18861On October 29th, German engineer karl benz applied for a patent for his motor vehicle. In June165438+1October of the same year, Karl Benz obtained the German patent (patent number: 37435a). This is considered to be the first modern car in the world. For the above reasons, people generally take 1886 as the first year of automobile, and some scholars take the year when Carl Benz made the first three-wheeled automobile (1885) as the year when the automobile was born.
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