Land Rover

The website of Land Rover is,

www.landrover.com

Land Rover got its start as the Rover Company in 1885, which began as a bicycle manufacturer in Warwickshire, England.

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Automobiles

An automobile is a self-propelled motor vehicle intended for passenger transportation on land. It usually has four wheels and an internal combustion engine fueled most often by gasoline, a liquid petroleum product. Known more commonly as a car, formerly as a motorcar, it is one of the most universal of modern technologies, manufactured by one of the world’s largest industries. More than 80.4 million new automobiles were produced worldwide in the year 2022, up about 4.1% vs. 2021.

Earlier cars had been driven by springs and compressed air. Windmill-powered vehicles were made before them. 

The scientific and technical building blocks of the automobile go back several hundred years. For example, in the late 1600s, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens invented a type of internal combustion engine sparked by gunpowder.

Development of the automobile started in 1672 with the invention of the first steam-powered vehicle,

The first steam-powered vehicle was supposedly built in 1679 by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit in China. The vehicle was a toy for the Chinese Emperor.

which led to the creation of the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation, built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769.

First steam powered automobile

"Cugnot 1769" Replica Recorded at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan, September 10, 2011, during the 61st Old Car Festivl.

The world's first practical modern automobile made by the Germans.

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Carl Benz, is widely regarded as the world's first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production.It was patented and unveiled in 1886. The original cost of the vehicle in 1886 was 600 imperial German marks, approximately 150 to 200 US dollars . Karl's wife Bertha demonstrated its feasibility in a trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in August 1888, shortly before it became the first commercially available automobile in history in the late summer of 1888. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen was a motor tricycle with a rear-mounted engine. Which is discussed in detail in Mercedes articles section. 

Benz first patent motorwagen 

With advanced development The “horseless carriage” in its modern form had been developed by the end of the 19th century. At that time, it was not clear which of three fuel sources would become most commercially successful: steam, electric power, or gasoline. Cars run by steam engines could go at high speeds but had a short range and were inconvenient to start. Battery-powered electric cars had a 38 percent share of the United States automobile market in 1900, but they also had a limited range and recharging stations were hard to find.

With the passage of times improvement advancement makes the automobiles more fast and reliable . And now in these days different varieties of automobiles with different functions are available with high speed and comfort.

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