History cars

History cars



History of the word "Car"

Story about the history of cars is logical to start with the history of the origin of the word. Not everyone knows where did the word "car". Self-propelled wheelchair (vuatyuootomobil) - the first crew with a mechanical engine. Eventually, from this title have only the word "otomobil", which originates from the Greek "auto" (himself) and the Latin word "mobilis" (mobile). These two words gave rise to the familiar to our ears "car" and "car".
The first attempts to create a car



In the XVII century there were people who tried to create a crew, in which you want to harness the horses, but those crews moved through the efforts of other manpower - passengers themselves or lackeys. At the same time, the French engineer Nicolas-Joseph Kyuno created the first steam-engine car designed for artillery weapons. This vehicle is located in the Paris museum of arts and crafts. The first attempts are not allowed to create a full-fledged car. By and large, were not cars and steam omnibuses, which appeared in England in the XIX century. Being too heavy, they consume large amounts of water and fuel, and demanded a thorough and lengthy preparation for the march. Omnibus moved slowly, destroying roads, which had appeared lost railways. But the role of these machines in the history of automobiles have played - was to prove the possibility of mechanical movement, developed and tested the main units and mechanisms. However, it is these seemingly ridiculous vehicles and gave rise to the history of cars .... Initially the XX century. came a classic layout, known to all (imagine a modern car, better than Russia's), which had served as a basis for vehicles for many years.