first gas powered car
Aug 12, 2022 12:40:00 #
arl Benz, from Germany, is credited with creating and patenting the first true gas-powered automobile in 1885-86. Several others, like French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, tried to lay claim to the title, but Cugnot's 3-wheeled steam-powered military tractor produced in 1769 didn't really count. A rival to Benz, Gottlieb Daimler produced his version of the car shortly after Benz and Daimlers' auto group came up with the Mercedes brand. It wasn't until 1926 that the auto companies owned by Daimler and Benz were merged in post-WWI Germany to form Daimler-Benz and finally adopt Mercedes-Benz as their iconic auto trademark.
Aug 12, 2022 12:46:14 #
Henry Ford (an AMERICAN automobile genius) “sliced and diced” foreign auto makers in 1908!
Aug 12, 2022 12:55:12 #
steve66613 wrote:
Henry Ford (an AMERICAN automobile genius) “sliced and diced” foreign auto makers in 1908!
sort of.. Fords great contribution was the introduction of the assembly line. made cars which the middle class could own.. Also promoted the 40 hour week, allowing time for the laborers to have spare time to drive those model "A" fords.. Yes, fords ideas made the huge auto industry work..
did you notice the one line about a steam driven military "tractor" produced in the 1700s? Wow, before the revoluntary war. amazing, like to know more about that..
Aug 12, 2022 13:08:35 #
permafrost wrote:
sort of.. Fords great contribution was the introduction of the assembly line. made cars which the middle class could own.. Also promoted the 40 hour week, allowing time for the laborers to have spare time to drive those model "A" fords.. Yes, fords ideas made the huge auto industry work..
did you notice the one line about a steam driven military "tractor" produced in the 1700s? Wow, before the revoluntary war. amazing, like to know more about that..
did you notice the one line about a steam driven military "tractor" produced in the 1700s? Wow, before the revoluntary war. amazing, like to know more about that..
Capitalism works. Would you tell your Socialist friends that it works.
Aug 12, 2022 13:35:23 #
permafrost wrote:
sort of.. Fords great contribution was the introduction of the assembly line. made cars which the middle class could own.. Also promoted the 40 hour week, allowing time for the laborers to have spare time to drive those model "A" fords.. Yes, fords ideas made the huge auto industry work..
did you notice the one line about a steam driven military "tractor" produced in the 1700s? Wow, before the revoluntary war. amazing, like to know more about that..
did you notice the one line about a steam driven military "tractor" produced in the 1700s? Wow, before the revoluntary war. amazing, like to know more about that..
FYI; Ford started with the Model T. Ford produced all of the materials for his cars: steel, rubber, leather, wood….all of it.
Ford produced one million Model Ts by the end of 1915 and FIVE million by 1921. By comparison, Europeans couldn’t “fight their way out of wet paper bag”! In fact, we had had to save them from Germany in WWI!
Aug 12, 2022 13:43:50 #
steve66613 wrote:
FYI; Ford started with the Model T. Ford produced all of the materials for his cars: steel, rubber, leather, wood….all of it.
Ford produced one million Model Ts by the end of 1915 and FIVE million by 1921. By comparison, Europeans couldn’t “fight their way out of wet paper bag”! In fact, we had had to save them from Germany in WWI!
Ford produced one million Model Ts by the end of 1915 and FIVE million by 1921. By comparison, Europeans couldn’t “fight their way out of wet paper bag”! In fact, we had had to save them from Germany in WWI!
Did you find my op interesting? Benz made a gas powered car in the 1880s.. that was the point I found interesting. Much earlier then I thought.. it was not about the the development of production lines or about any political or economic system..
We should also note that each of these very early cars were a bit different then the others. Usually in the transmission drive train.. So while ford did not actually invent the car, he did , in my opinion invent the production methods to make possable the auto industry as we have known it..
Aug 12, 2022 13:47:46 #
steve66613 wrote:
FYI; Ford started with the Model T. Ford produced all of the materials for his cars: steel, rubber, leather, wood….all of it.
Ford produced one million Model Ts by the end of 1915 and FIVE million by 1921. By comparison, Europeans couldn’t “fight their way out of wet paper bag”! In fact, we had had to save them from Germany in WWI!
Ford produced one million Model Ts by the end of 1915 and FIVE million by 1921. By comparison, Europeans couldn’t “fight their way out of wet paper bag”! In fact, we had had to save them from Germany in WWI!
Most of the countries were not Fond of Capitalism. They were mostly Over taxed Kingdom’s. So they really didn’t have a chance to out produce America.
I’m not so sure America “saved” them from Germany. The war was close to being over by the time we mobilized and joined the fight. I believe the Germans realized it was not fruitful to continue the war. Because of that we got WWII.
Aug 12, 2022 14:15:33 #
Turtle keeper wrote:
Most of the countries were not Fond of Capitalism. They were mostly Over taxed Kingdom’s. So they really didn’t have a chance to out produce America.
I’m not so sure America “saved” them from Germany. The war was close to being over by the time we mobilized and joined the fight. I believe the Germans realized it was not fruitful to continue the war. Because of that we got WWII.
I’m not so sure America “saved” them from Germany. The war was close to being over by the time we mobilized and joined the fight. I believe the Germans realized it was not fruitful to continue the war. Because of that we got WWII.
And we saved their sorry a$$es, from Germany, again!
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