So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

From The 1st Automobiles In History To 1860

By Mick Car


The evolution of automobiles down the ages has usually been an exciting subject and has been full of numerous startling details. Despite the fact that it is normally believed that the first steam powered vehicle was created by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769, this is often questioned by other people, who put forward a different theory that the first steam powered auto was built as early as 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest, a jesuit missionary in China. But quite small details is accessible concerning this.

The vehicle made by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1769, was made use of as a military tractor briefly by the French Army, to haul their heavy artillery. But its complicated body along with its instability resulted in it getting shelved soon. Later on, another Frenchman, Onesiphore Pecqueur tried to improve Cugnot's car without having a lot of good results.

Puffing Devil

In 1801 Richard Trevithick created his 'Puffing Devil', a steam powered vehicle that had a firebox enclosed inside the boiler. Even though not successful, this improvement led towards the creation of the 'London Steam Carriage', which was fairly popular in London for a few years, following which it progressively disappeared. Steam carriage services once more resurfaced in England in the 1830s but by then the laws, in particular the Turnpike Act, necessary that they pay a heavy toll, which led to an apparent drop of such means of transportation. England was monopolized by horse traction for a extended time, till railway trunk routes were set up within the 1840s and 1850s.

Issac de Rivaz Inventions And His Part In the Automobile History

1807 saw a different excellent invention when a Swiss man, Issac de Rivaz who was accountable for designing a number of steam powered cars towards the late eighteenth century, created a gas driven internal combustion engine, which generated energy by making use of a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. He also created a new auto by making use of this engine and thus it became the really first automobile in the globe to run on an internal combustion engine. This model was later reworked to develop a more sophisticated car that had a length of six meters and it weighed nearly 1000 kg.

First Effective Two Stroke Internal Combustion Vehicle

This historic invention initiated lots of equivalent automobile creations, specially in the early nineteenth century, however it is also to be noted that extremely few out of those inventions, witnessed any considerable accomplishment. It took until 1860 for a different historical event in this field when Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, an enterprising Belgian, built the first two stroke gas driven engine successfully, thus making readily available a practical power unit for automobiles.

How Did The very first Internal Combustion Engine Car Work

Lenoir's invention made use of coal gas that was ignited inside a tube named the cylinder by means of a spark from a Ruhmkorff induction coil. The gas was drawn in to the cylinder by the piston, and was ignited half way through the stroke, leading to an impulsion to complete the stroke. The piston was returned to its original position by the crank as well as the burnt gas was expelled.

Top Speed Of 3km/h

This invention became quite preferred with the masses, and had a speed of three km per hour! Before long, a company called Gautier began commercially manufacturing these engines in their factory, for use in vehicles.




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