Automobile or known as car have expansion of technology from time to time. There is time where car runned by steam engine, and then for the latest era we use gasoline to move cars. Maybe in the future it will back to water energy again considering of earth energy crisis but ofcourse in the modern thing not like old time where the machine is very big and not fashionable model and not simple. According to wikipedia about steam engine car that Steam-powered self-propelled vehicles were devised in the late 17th century. Then Richard Trevithick had developed the use of high-pressure steam, around 1800, that mobile steam engines became a practical proposition. The first half of the 19th century saw great progress in steam vehicle design, and by the 1850s it was viable to produce them on a commercial basis. The next sixty years saw continuing improvements in vehicle technology and manufacturing techniques and steam road vehicles were used for many applications. In the twentieth century, the rapid development of internal combustion engine technology, coupled with adverse legislation, led to the demise of the steam engine as a source of propulsion of vehicles on a commercial basis, with relatively few remaining in use after the Second World War. However, many vehicles were acquired by enthusiasts for preservation, and numerous examples are still in existence. Moreover, the threat of Global Warming, and the search for renewable energy sources, has led to a resurgence of interest in utilising steam as a power source for road vehicles in the future.
below is photographs of old vehicles or cars.
Second Marcus Car of 1888
Amédée Bollée: L'Obéissante (1875).
1870, Vienna, Austria: world's gasoline-run vehicle #1, the First Marcus Car
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's "Fardier à vapeur" ("Steam wagon")(1769)
Karl Benz's "Velo" model (1894) - entered into an early automobile race
Benz Patent Motorwagon, first built in 1885
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