History of Cugnot - inventor of the first self-propelled vehicle
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Design Engineering Mechanics Entrepreneurship and Innovation History of Science and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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WWW |
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Elvis Payne |
| Description: | Website on Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, who is recognised as building the first self-propelled vehicle to transport man. "Cugnot was at the time an engineer in the French Army. Steam power has been used since the early 1700's for fixed machines that pumped water from mines, or raised heavy equipment. It was not known at the time how to convert the back and forth pass motion of steam power into a rotary movement to make a wheel turn. Cugnot solved this problem and in 1769 built a full size prototype vehicle based on a model he had made some six years earlier. His Steam Dray (fardier a vapeur) had 3-wheels with iron rims, two wheels were at the back with the one wheel in front." The site has a link to a downloadable video at the DB Museum, showing a reconstruction of the fardier in action (B&W). |
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| Keywords: | Cugnot automobile design automobile history |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process |
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| Publication Date: | November 2009 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.3wheelers.com/cugnot.html |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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