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[leslie]

Randall Bart (Barticus@att.spam.net) wrote:
:
: The first guy to build an automobile was some French guy about 1780. I
: don't recall his name, and he was largely forgotten until we celebrated
: the 100th anniversary of the automobile in 1996. He drove it about half
: a mile, crashed, towed it back to his barn, and never tried again. He
: deserves to be forgotten.
:

Nicolas Joseph Cugnot...

http://inventors.about.com/library/w...carssteama.htm
The History of the Automobile - Steam Cars

"...In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military
tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph
Cugnot (1725 - 1804). Cugnot used a steam engine to power his vehicle,
built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal by mechanic Brezin.
It was used by the French Army to haul artillery at a whopping speed
of 2 1/2 mph on only three wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten
to fifteen minutes to build up steam power. The steam engine and
boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the
front (see engraving above). The following year (1770), Cugnot built a
steam-powered tricycle that carried four passengers.

In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall,
making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident.
This was the beginning of bad luck for the inventor. After one of
Cugnot's patrons died and the other was exiled, the money for Cugnot's
road vehicle experiments ended..."

--Jerry Leslie
Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email

[Randall Bart]

'Twas Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:56:16 GMT when all alt.privacy.spyware stood in
awe as LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM (leslie) uttered:

>Nicolas Joseph Cugnot...
>
> http://inventors.about.com/library/w...carssteama.htm
> The History of the Automobile - Steam Cars
>
> "...In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military
> tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph
> Cugnot (1725 - 1804). Cugnot used a steam engine to power his vehicle,
> built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal by mechanic Brezin.
> It was used by the French Army to haul artillery at a whopping speed
> of 2 1/2 mph on only three wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten
> to fifteen minutes to build up steam power. The steam engine and
> boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the
> front (see engraving above). The following year (1770), Cugnot built a
> steam-powered tricycle that carried four passengers.
>
> In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall,
> making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident.
> This was the beginning of bad luck for the inventor. After one of
> Cugnot's patrons died and the other was exiled, the money for Cugnot's
> road vehicle experiments ended..."

Thank you. The way it was presented on some PBS show, he crashed his
first day out and gave up. This paints a very different picture. It
seems Cugnot was memorable character after all. The vehicle was
impractical in its time, and could only exist through the largesse of
patrons. Genius inventors are always hindered by the primitive tools they
have to work with.
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[James E. Morrow]

Randall Bart <Barticus@att.spam.net> wrote in
news:dujklv82q1qjbdj3kqmn44j82odve5e0rp@4ax.com:

> 'Twas Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:56:16 GMT when all alt.privacy.spyware
> stood in awe as LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM (leslie) uttered:
>
>>Nicolas Joseph Cugnot...
>>
>> http://inventors.about.com/library/w...carssteama.htm
>> The History of the Automobile - Steam Cars
>>
>> "...In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a
>> military
>> tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas
>> Joseph Cugnot (1725 - 1804). Cugnot used a steam engine to
>> power his vehicle, built under his instructions at the Paris
>> Arsenal by mechanic Brezin. It was used by the French Army to
>> haul artillery at a whopping speed of 2 1/2 mph on only three
>> wheels. The vehicle had to stop every ten to fifteen minutes to
>> build up steam power. The steam engine and boiler were separate
>> from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the front (see
>> engraving above). The following year (1770), Cugnot built a
>> steam-powered tricycle that carried four passengers.
>>
>> In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone
>> wall, making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor
>> vehicle accident. This was the beginning of bad luck for the
>> inventor. After one of Cugnot's patrons died and the other was
>> exiled, the money for Cugnot's road vehicle experiments
>> ended..."
>
> Thank you. The way it was presented on some PBS show, he crashed
> his first day out and gave up. This paints a very different
> picture. It seems Cugnot was memorable character after all. The
> vehicle was impractical in its time, and could only exist through
> the largesse of patrons. Genius inventors are always hindered by
> the primitive tools they have to work with.

For the record the first American automobile was built by the Duryea
brothers in 1896. This excludes some steam power contraptions built
earlier. By 1896 the European auto industry was well advanced.

http://www.modelt.org/articles/art_tcent.htm

Henry Ford invented almost nothing.

The Cugnot vehicle was intended to pull artillery for the French Army.
Had history been different Napoleon might have had his own blitzkrieg.

--
James E. Morrow
Email to: jamesemorrow@email.com