First+car+engine

'__//** The First Car Engine **//__ =toc= By Ethan = = =Who made it?=

The person who made the first car engine was a man named Ferdinand Verbiest, and Harry Ricardo.

Ferdinand Verbiest: Harry Ricardo: [|London], [|England] ||
 * ~ Born || 9 October 1623 ( 1623-10-09 ) ||
 * ~ Died || 28 January 1688 ( 1688-01-28 ) (aged 64 ||
 * ~ Born || 26 January 1885 ( 1885-01-26 )
 * ~ Died || 18 May 1974 ( 1974-05-18 ) (aged 89 ||

http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-verbiest

=About Ferdinand Verbiest=

Father **Ferdinand Verbiest** (October 9, 1623 – January 28, 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in Flanders, later part of the modern state of Belgium.[|[][|2][|]] He is known as Nan Huairen (南懷仁) in Chinese. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy. == http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-verbiest = = =About Harry Ricardo=

He improved on the engines that were used in the first [|tanks], oversaw the research into the physics of internal combustion that led to the use of [|octane ratings], was instrumental in development of the [|sleeve valve] engine design, and invented the Diesel pre-combustion chamber that made high-speed [|diesel engines] possible.
 * Sir Harry Ricardo** (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the [|internal combustion engine].

http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-verbiest

= = =Alphonse Beau de Rochas= = = The first automobiles were powered by steam. This technique, although suitable for large vehicles like boats and trains, was not practical for smaller individual automobiles. So, a century after it was invented, in 1770, the automobile was still considered a toy. However, in 1862, the French engineer Alphonse Beau de Rochas invented the principle of the 4-step combustion engine. In this engine, a fuel-air mix is introduced in the engine and the explosion of this mixture pushes directly on the piston. There is no need for an intermediate step like boiling water. A few years later, in 1876, the German Nikolaus August Otto built the first engine based on Beau de Rochas' principle. This engine was very heavy and could only be used by industry and electrical power companies. Imagining how such an engine could effectively replace the steam powered engines of automobiles, the mechanic Gottlieb Daimler tried to build a much lighter engine working on the same principle. In 1885, he came up with a very light 2-step combustion engine that was used for boats, velocipeds and even tram ways. A few years later, in 1889, he invented a 4-step combustion engine that is the direct ancestor of the engine we find in our cars today. This invention opened the door to the automobile revolution in which the state of Michigan played such a prominent role. //Science Theatre would like to thank N. Mousseau for contributing to this article.//

http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/022493.html

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=//The First Car Engine//=

//During the 1670s, Verbiest designed what some claim to be the first ever self-propelled vehicle – many claim this as the world's first [|automobile], in spite of its small size and the lack of evidence that it was actually built.//

//http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-verbiest//

=//Diesel Engine//=

//A **diesel engine** (also known as a **compression-ignition engine** and sometimes capitalized as **Diesel engine**) is an [|internal combustion engine] that uses the [|heat of compression] to initiate [|ignition] to burn the [|fuel], which is injected into the [|combustion chamber] during the final stage of compression. This is in contrast to spark-ignition engines such as a [|petrol engine] (gasoline engine) or [|gas engine] (using a gaseous fuel as opposed to gasoline), which uses a spark plug to ignite an air-fuel mixture. The diesel engine is modeled on the [|Diesel cycle]. The engine and thermodynamic cycle were both developed by [|Rudolf Diesel] in 1897.// //The diesel engine has the highest [|thermal efficiency] of any regular [|internal] or [|external combustion] engine due to its very high [|compression ratio]. Low-speed diesel engines (as used in ships and other applications where overall engine weight is relatively unimportant) often have a thermal efficiency which exceeds 50 percent.[|[][|1][|]][|[][|2][|]][|[][|3][|]][|[][|4][|]]// //Diesel engines are manufactured in [|two stroke] and [|four stroke] versions. They were originally used as a more efficient replacement for stationary [|steam engines]. Since the 1910s they have been used in [|submarines] and ships. Use in locomotives, large trucks and electric generating plants followed later. In the 1930s, they slowly began to be used in a few [|automobiles]. Since the 1970s, the use of diesel engines in larger on-road and [|off-road vehicles] in the USA increased. As of 2007, about 50 percent of all new car sales in Europe are diesel.[|[][|5][|]]// //The world's largest diesel engine is currently a [|Wärtsilä] marine diesel of about 80 [|MW] output.[|[][|6][|]]//

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine//

=//First Gasoline Powered car in the USA//=

//Running by February, 1893 and ready for road trials by September, 1893 the car built by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, was the first gasoline powered car in America. The first run on public roads was made on September 21, 1893 in Springfield, MA. They had purchased a used horse drawn buggy for $70 and installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline engine. The car (buggy) had a friction transmission, spray carburetor and low tension ignition. It must not have run very well because Frank didn't drive it again until November 10 when it was reported by the Springfield Morning Union newspaper. This car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until 1920 when it was rescued by Inglis M. Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum.//

//Henry Ford had an engine running by 1893 but it was 1896 before he built his first car. By the end of the year Ford had sold his first car, which he called a, for $200 and used the money to build another one. With the financial backing of the Mayor of Detroit, William C. Maybury and other wealthy Detroiters, Ford formed the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. A few prototypes were built but no production cars were ever made by this company. It was dissolved in January 1901. Ford would not offer a car for sale until 1903.//

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=//Attempts to Build a Car Engine//=

//As the picture below shows, many attempts were being made in England by the 1830's to develop a practical vehicle that didn't need rails. A series of accidents and propaganda from the established railroads caused a flurry of restrictive legislation to be passed and the development of the automobile bypassed England. Several commercial vehicles were built but they were more like trains without tracks.//

//http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm//

=//**Nikolaus August Otto**//=

//**Nikolaus August Otto** (10 June 1832, [|Holzhausen an der Haide], Nassau - 26 January 1891, [|Cologne]) was the [|German] [|inventor] of the first [|internal-combustion engine] to efficiently burn fuel directly in a [|piston] chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e.g. by [|Étienne Lenoir]) these were not based on four separate strokes. Th// //e concept of four strokes is likely to have been around at the time of Otto's invention but he was the first to make it practical.//

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=//Mr. Martin Baden//=

//Mr. Martin Baden of Winfield, Kansas and his new eight-cylinder Cadillac roadster. This car was especially built for [|Mr. Baden], and was equipped with all modern appliances. Driving an automobile required a high degree to technical dexterity, mechanical skill, special clothing including hat, gloves, duster coat, goggles and boots. Tires were notoriously unreliable and changing one was an excruciating experience. Fuel was a problem, since gasoline was in short supply. Mr. Baden became interested enough to become a self-taught geologist and eventually discover major oil deposits in Cowley County, Kansas, and surrounding area.//

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=//Nicholas Joseph Cugnot//=

//The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. I believe that the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C. also has a large (half size ?) scale model. A second unit was built in 1770 which weighed 8000 pounds and had a top speed on 2 miles per hour and on the cobble stone streets of Paris this was probably as fast as anyone wanted to go it. The picture shows the first model on its first drive around Paris were it hit and knocked down a stone wall. It also had a tendency to tip over frontward unless it was counterweighted with a canon in the rear. the purpose of the vehicle was to haul canons around town.//

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//Siegfried Marcus, of Mecklenburg, built a can in 1868 and showed one at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. His later car was called the Strassenwagen had about 3/4 horse power at 500 rpm. It ran on crude wooden wheels with iron rims and stopped by pressing wooden blocks against the iron rims, but it had a clutch, a differential and a magneto ignition. One of the four cars which Marcus built is in the Vienna Technical Museum and can still be driven under its own power.//

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The Curved Dash Oldsmobile had a single cylinder engine, tiller steering and chain drive. It sold for $650. In 1901 600 were sold and the next years were 1902 - 2,500, 1903 - 4,000, 1904 - 5,000. In August 1904 Ransom Olds left the company to form Reo (for Ransom Eli Olds). **Ransom E. Olds was the first mass producer of gasoline powered automobiles in the United States**, even though Duryea was the first auto manufacturer with their 13 cars.

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= Honda S2000 =

The **Honda S2000** was a [|roadster] manufactured by the Japanese automaker [|Honda Motor Company]. It was launched in April 1999 and was created to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. The car was first shown as a concept at the [|Tokyo Motor Show] in 1995, following which it was launched in world markets in 1999. The S2000 is named for its engine displacement of 2 L, carrying on in the tradition of the [|S500], [|S600] , and [|S800] roadsters of the 1960s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_S2000



http://www.ibherdesign.com/eb/s2000/honda-s2000-taipan.jpg

= = = = = = =The A40 Devon= == = = = = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Devon

= = = = = = = = = = = = =1st Date= First Gasoline Powered car in the USA: 1893

**2nd Date** Attempt to build a car engine: 1830

=3rd Date= Ferdinand Verbiest's car engine: 1623

=4th Date= Alphonse Beau de Rochas's first car engine: 1862

=5th Date= Nikolaus August Otto's first car engine:1891

=6th Date= Harry Ricardo's car engine: 1885

=7th Date= Nicholas Joseph Cugnot's car engine:1769

=8th Date= Siegfried Marcus's car engine: 1868

=9th Date= Henry Ford's first car:1893 = = = = = = =10th Date= The Curved Dash Oldsmobile: 1901 = = = = =11th Date= The Honda S2000: 2000 = = = = = = =Webliography= http://www.answers.com/topic/ferdinand-verbiest http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/022493.html http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.viewzi.com/search/power_grid/the%20first%20car%20engine http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm

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