文档介绍：The past and the future of cars
A: Automotive history.
The first car steam car
1765, the British Watt invented the steam engine, lead humanity into the "steam engine era." Many inventors have also applied to the Watt's invention of "self-propelled vehicle" design.
French Home Mourinho spent 6 years, in 1769 made the world a practical value of the steam car. Zheliang very peculiar style car body is made with a hardwood frame, consists of three one high iron wheel support. Cars stood in front of a large pear-shaped volume of 50L boiler, boiler behind two 11-gallon volume of the cylinder. Boiler by the simple movement of the piston crankshaft front passed, the front wheel rotation. At the same time the front wheel or the steering wheel, pressing heavy on the front of the boiler, it is very laborious manipulation of steering rods.
Zheliang steam cars a fatal drawback, each taking 15 minutes, the pressure of the boiler to make a loss and had to stop to add the Sheung Shui to boil into steam, and its top speed is only 4km / h.
This car is as difficult to control the direction of bars, constantly testing accident. Time in the general vicinity of St. slave arsenal when going downhill, because not timely turning Arsenal hit the wall first in the world to remember a car knocked pieces, beyond recognition.
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