Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,165,310 members, 7,860,760 topics. Date: Friday, 14 June 2024 at 03:43 PM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Autos / Do You Know? (317 Views)
(1) (Reply)
Do You Know? by oyar: 4:39pm On Nov 08, 2017 |
Do you know who is said to be the inventor of what is called the world's first automobile? A French inventor, an army captain and an engineer, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, was believed to be the first person who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile. This self-propelled vehicle is a three wheeled vehicle, which was built for the French army in 1769, intended for transporting cannons. This vehicle, is capable of converting the reciprocating motion of a steam piston into a rotary motion by means of a ratchet arrangement. The vehicle carried a front mounted boiler and a two-cylinder engine located over the front wheel. Cugnot’s vehicle worked but needed to stop every 10 - 12 minutes to rebuild enough steam pressure to continue. The vehicle’s single front wheel performed both steering and driving functions. The vehicle had a top speed of 2 mph with four passengers aboard and eventually caused the world’s first automobile accident when it ran out of control and demolished a garden wall. This vehicle was popularly known as Cugnot's fardier à vapeur. Brought to you from :Triple D Auto Place. Visit us for your car repair and maintenance at: Plot 558, Katampe road, After ABC cargo, Jahi district, Abuja. +234 814 230 1673 +234 909 975 0777 tripled.auto.limited@gmail.com
|
(1) (Reply)
Tokunbo 2008 Toyota Camry Sport V4 With Leather Seat Available In Lagos At 2.75m / Super Clean Toyota Highlander Limited 2013@9.5m / 2004 Naija Used Infiniti FX35 1.6M In Uyo
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 10 |