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Date: 2019-10-24
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Naughty internet person
Trevithick made another road vehicle way before Benz, in 1802. 3 wheels, steering at the front via a tiller, steam engine and drive wheels at the back, a luxurious horse carriage style seating compartment. It was a fairly practical vehicle, quite fast, 8mph top speed, maximum 8 passengers. I really fail to see how Benz's trike is a car but Trevithicks various attempts weren't. A car, a carriage, well that's exactly what Trevithicks London bus was, a self propelled passenger carriage. I believe it was a somewhat commercially successful taxi in London for a time. A very attractive machine. It was all a custom job, not slapped together from pre-existing bits. There's footage of a replica in Fred Dibnah documentaries (Age of Steam, in a Mark Williams documentary and in Chris Barrie's Britain's greatest machines. I can't see any meaningful difference between the Benz machine and this one.
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Trevithick made another road vehicle way before Benz, in 1802. 3 wheels, steering at the front via a tiller, steam engine and drive wheels at the back, a luxurious horse carriage style seating compartment. It was a fairly practical vehicle, quite fast, 8mph top speed, maximum 8 passengers. I really fail to see how Benz's trike is a car but Trevithicks various attempts weren't. A car, a carriage, well that's exactly what Trevithicks London bus was, a self propelled passenger carriage. I believe it was a somewhat commercially successful taxi in London for a time. A very attractive machine. It was all a custom job, not slapped together from pre-existing bits. There's footage of a replica in Fred Dibnah documentaries (Age of Steam, in a Mark Williams documentary and in Chris Barrie's Britain's greatest machines. I can't see any meaningful difference between the Benz machine and this one.
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Frankie Teague
Think most of us that read understand Ford did not invent the automobile, matter of fact Ford didnt even invent the assembly line. Ford was the money behind it tho. But his managers actually came up with theconcept of the assembly line. Fords tin lizzy was actually the first practical and affordable automobile, so as for the invention, i would imagine it would depend on how you might percieve it. The Benz was not an affordable car back then and its still not today here in the states. Fact is most European autos are priced out of the common market here in the states, this not being because they are better made because their not, its because the greedy government overlords tarrif European imports so heavily. But anyway Ford did not invent the aoutomobile but he di make it affordable to the common man.
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Think most of us that read understand Ford did not invent the automobile, matter of fact Ford didnt even invent the assembly line. Ford was the money behind it tho. But his managers actually came up with theconcept of the assembly line. Fords tin lizzy was actually the first practical and affordable automobile, so as for the invention, i would imagine it would depend on how you might percieve it. The Benz was not an affordable car back then and its still not today here in the states. Fact is most European autos are priced out of the common market here in the states, this not being because they are better made because their not, its because the greedy government overlords tarrif European imports so heavily. But anyway Ford did not invent the aoutomobile but he di make it affordable to the common man.
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Joseph Atnip
I don't consider Mercedes-Benz vehicle to be the first car I mean it was basically built with bicycle parts and a gasoline motor it was basically the first trike motorcycle not the first car. The car needs four wheels I don't know about what part of the country you live in or the world but where I'm from a three-wheeled vehicle is considered a motorcycle and is covered under motorcycle laws requiring people to wear a helmet and all that kind of stuff and is not considered a car even the Polaris Slingshot here is considered a motorcycle
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I don't consider Mercedes-Benz vehicle to be the first car I mean it was basically built with bicycle parts and a gasoline motor it was basically the first trike motorcycle not the first car. The car needs four wheels I don't know about what part of the country you live in or the world but where I'm from a three-wheeled vehicle is considered a motorcycle and is covered under motorcycle laws requiring people to wear a helmet and all that kind of stuff and is not considered a car even the Polaris Slingshot here is considered a motorcycle
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Ricardo Ellison
CAR, A self propelled machine with the ability to transport one or more individuals from point A to point B. Cugnot. At 1: 51 cancelled before it went into production, uh, no, two were built as prospective machines. going into production is deceptive wording, as devices & machines built at that time were one at a time, low volume and each one fabricated by hand & unique as the parts were not interchangeable because of great variations in sizes (tolerances.
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CAR, A self propelled machine with the ability to transport one or more individuals from point A to point B. Cugnot. At 1: 51 cancelled before it went into production, uh, no, two were built as prospective machines. going into production is deceptive wording, as devices & machines built at that time were one at a time, low volume and each one fabricated by hand & unique as the parts were not interchangeable because of great variations in sizes (tolerances.
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Nha Duong
I knew that, i read a book about Henry Ford and it said he saw a steam powered vehicle (not really a vehicle) something and he asked how it worked and it continued from there there was a competiton and there were other internal combustion vehicles other than henry fordTheres a funny part in the book where he built the car in the shed and he didnt meaure the door so he couldnt get it out so he broke the wall it showed a picture and it looked so funny
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I knew that, i read a book about Henry Ford and it said he saw a steam powered vehicle (not really a vehicle) something and he asked how it worked and it continued from there there was a competiton and there were other internal combustion vehicles other than henry fordTheres a funny part in the book where he built the car in the shed and he didnt meaure the door so he couldnt get it out so he broke the wall it showed a picture and it looked so funny
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Mister Lackey
You forgot to mention the steam-powered 4-wheeled dynamos created by Egyptians thousands of years ago. And you forgot about the steam carriage industry that thrived in England between 1820 and 1840. And you forgot the various iterations of electric cars that preceded the Benz's gasoline. SighSure, I'm inclined to think of the electric car as a play toy for rich people, too, but they are cars nonetheless.
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You forgot to mention the steam-powered 4-wheeled dynamos created by Egyptians thousands of years ago. And you forgot about the steam carriage industry that thrived in England between 1820 and 1840. And you forgot the various iterations of electric cars that preceded the Benz's gasoline. SighSure, I'm inclined to think of the electric car as a play toy for rich people, too, but they are cars nonetheless.
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Samuel McKittrick
the fault in Trevithick's machine wasn't so much that it exploded (although that was bad) for he went on to build other similar steam engines but that it was near impossible to steer, which is why he decided his later invention in 1804 would run on rails thus going from the car to inventing the world's first railway locomotive (with a safety valve to stop it exploding.
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the fault in Trevithick's machine wasn't so much that it exploded (although that was bad) for he went on to build other similar steam engines but that it was near impossible to steer, which is why he decided his later invention in 1804 would run on rails thus going from the car to inventing the world's first railway locomotive (with a safety valve to stop it exploding.
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gsilva220
Ford didn't invent the car, but he made the car into how we see it today: Mass produced and thought for a balance of profit and affordability. Also, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, but it was Alberto Santos Dumont who made it the way we have it today, taking off on its own power, from a runway, with landing gear and no rails or catapult.
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Ford didn't invent the car, but he made the car into how we see it today: Mass produced and thought for a balance of profit and affordability. Also, the Wright brothers invented the airplane, but it was Alberto Santos Dumont who made it the way we have it today, taking off on its own power, from a runway, with landing gear and no rails or catapult.
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John V
Puffing Devil did not explode. The wooden frame caught fire when the driving crew stopped to visit a pub. There is only one recorded instance of a Trevithick boiler exploding, of the many hundreds which were made. In that case, the boy attendant tied down the safety valve, and he went fishing.
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Puffing Devil did not explode. The wooden frame caught fire when the driving crew stopped to visit a pub. There is only one recorded instance of a Trevithick boiler exploding, of the many hundreds which were made. In that case, the boy attendant tied down the safety valve, and he went fishing.
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Simon Feldthaus
I havent watched the vid yet, but I know it was Carl Benz. BTW my parents have got an A250 and we had a C200. I live in Denmark so the price is double from USA. If the prices were the same as in USA we could have a dodge demon just sayin
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I havent watched the vid yet, but I know it was Carl Benz. BTW my parents have got an A250 and we had a C200. I live in Denmark so the price is double from USA. If the prices were the same as in USA we could have a dodge demon just sayin
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