Cars - History of Motor Vehicles

Some of the Earliest vehicles had sails and were blown along by the wind like the sailboats. A french inventor made a steam carriage in 1770. In Late 1800s a German Inventor built a car with a period engine. Soon engineers in other countries were making cars. In the 1900s Factories in the United states began to mass - produce them. Today, ten of millions of vehicles are produced annually, Including, cars, buses, lorries, motorcycles and dozens of speciality vehicles.

How exciting to be able to go wherever one wishes with the speed and strength of a wild animal! People have dreamed of such freedom for thousands of years. That is why early humans tamed horses, so that they could ride them and use them to pull heavy loads or help with strenuous work. Hundreds of years again somebody hand another idea: Why not make machines that would take the place of horses? In the 1600s a sailing carriage was built that moved by wind power. It was not very successful or popular, however, because the wind did not blow every day and did not always blow the right direction. In 1770 the first real motor car appeared in France. Powered by steam that car was more successful than the sailing carriage. By the 1880s Two germans engineers, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, were making vehicles that were the ancestors of the motor cars of today. During the 1900s motor cars developed into the fast, powerful and comfortable vehicles now in use. The Engineers who designs cars are constantly working to make them safer, more efficient with fuel and less damaging to the enviroment