... constructed another form of automobile in 1781, and in 1784 they produced a model of a wagon that used the power of a high-pressure, noncondensing steam engine. The British inventor William Symington, in 1786 built a working model of a so-called steam carriage. The first automobile to carry passengers was built in 1801 by the British inventor Richard Trevithick. His success was based on the greater ... motor, patented in 1887, achieved speeds many times those of any previous engine, that way it would hold three times more and go three times faster. In 1889 he developed a two-cylinder en...

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... In 1769 the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic Nicolas Joseph Cugnot . He used a steam engine to power his vehicle, built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal by mechanic Randolph Brezin. It was used by the French Army to haul ... whopping speed of 2.5 mph on only three wheels. Although it had to stop every 10-15 minutes to build up steam power it was still carrying its own weight. The steam engine and boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the front. It wasn't until but a ... year later...

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... many solutions that are on the market including; nickel hydride batteries, sodium borohydride storage, and fuel processors. New legislations is slowly trying to make the switch from the internal combustion engine to the hydrogen fuel cell. INTRODUCTION Background Fuel cells were first recognized in the early 1960s (Iovine, 2001). NASA decided to use fuel cells as a power source in ... professor with at least a little background knowledge on the subject. Sources Information for this report was obtained from several reputable scientific journals that were found on the University Libraries ...

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... disliked school and farm life, so at age 16, he walked to Detroit in search of employment. Ford found a job in a machine shop. Here he learned about the internal combustion engine. To help him survive on his low wages he spent his evenings repairing clocks and watches. He worked for about seven years and then returned home to his family and ... father gave him 40 acres to start his own farm. He disliked farming and spent much of the time trying to build a steam road carriage and a farm locomotive. While at home Ford found a job working part-time for the Westinghouse Engine Company. Afte...

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... and automobiles for only a few years. His first vehicle was the "Quadri-cycle". This contraption was basically a normal horse buggy with an internal combustion engine. He had finally completed it in 1896. A year later he sold it for money to work on other creations. (Henry p.1) Over the next few ... . While this configuration does allow for more torque it requires much more space not only for the actual cylinder, but also for the hardware of the engine. The V configuration provided the same amount of horsepower at the cost of 2-4% less torque. For Ford to make his vision of a V configurat...

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... tractors and snowmobiles) emit air toxics as well.(Lee, 18) Some toxic compounds are present in gasoline and are emitted to the air when gasoline evaporates or passes through the engine as unburned fuel. Benzene, for example, is a component of gasoline. Cars emit small quantities of benzene in unburned fuel, or as vapor when gasoline evaporates. A significant amount of ... hill. Composite materials like carbon fiber or lightweight metals like aluminum and magnesium can be used to reduce weight. The Dodge ESX is a great example of a very efficient hybrid-fuel engine/drivetrain that exhi...

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... Starting in 1975 emission standards started to put the hammer down on the Corvette (Pon,61). By doing this Corvette had to add things to the engine, such as a catalytic converter, which is a container that is filled with platinum beads that attract harmful gasses to them (Pon,62). This helps ... thing they had to change on the corvette during the third generation was to add a computer module to monitor the what the engine was doing and controlling everything that the engine did (Allan Young). By doing this it really hurt the amount of horsepower that the Corvette produced (Allan Young). ...

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... Fiero sales increase even more. In 1985 though the people at Pontiac were hit with an even bigger blow with engine problems. It seemed that over 20% of the four cylinder engines were blowing up causing engine fires. Later GM issued a recall of over 5,000 cars whose engines received a bad batch of connecting rods. ... several other modifications and was the first to develop a V8 kit. Other engines like the Northstar V8 out of newer Cadillacs actually bolt to the Fiero's transmission. This engine is capable of revving to 9,000 R.P.M.'s allowing for a very fun car to drive. I don't want you ...

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... into researching hydrogen as an alternative fuel sources for automobiles. Not only is hydrogen the "cleanest fuel available" and creates "negligible emissions of air pollutants" when powering an internal combustion engine, but it has also been known to actually clean the air while acting as a fuel (Kushnir 12). Roy McAlister and his engineering students at Arizona State University demonstrated this "minus ... kerosene" (Kushnir 12). In fact, gasoline has been the cause of many more deaths than hydrogen. If people were to consider the fact that "15,000 cars are destroyed by engine fires ...

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... damage to the vehicle what so ever. For example, the Honda Ridgeline is a pickup truck made by Honda which is a Japanese company, it has a V6 engine. V6 means that it only has six cylinders. It has 250 horsepower at 5700 revolutions per minute, 247 lb-ft of torque at 4300 revolutions per minute, and ... its towing capacity is 5,000lbs. On the other hand Ford makes a truck called the F-350 which has a 6.7 liter power stroke V8 turbo diesel engine. This truck has 440 horsepower, and 860 lb-ft of torque. The F-350 has a towing capacity of 26,500lbs. The Ford F-350 also is all terrain; it ....

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... directly into where the dipstick comes out. Only add little portions at a time and check constantly because if to much fluid is applied it could result in the engine running bad.(Samarin) Another fluid to check is the power steering fluid. Located near the belts is a power steering pump. The screw on the lid will say ... Normally there will be a dipstick attached to the lid that will allow you to check the fluid level. It does not matter whether this is checked with the engine cold or hot. Fluid may be added as needed. The next type of fluid to check is the brake fluid. To check this they...

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... exhaust, mainly in the form of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are organic compounds, a combination of two or more elements, which contain only carbon and hydrogen. Hydrocarbons are released when fuel in the engine burns partially. When hydrocarbons come in contact with sunlight they form ground level ozone. Ground level ozone is a major ingredient in the formation of smog. Ground level ozone is responsible ... exhaust are carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. The first reduces the flow of oxygen to the bloodstream, and could harm people with heart disease. Nitrogen oxide is formed when a car ...

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... , and in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the original headquarters of Chrysler. History Of Daimler: In 1880s Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler developed from the internal-combustion engine. These two engines founded two separate companies. Benz and Daimler never met, but their companies, Daimler Engine and Benz & Companies, became successful manufacturers of automobiles. In 1885 Benz built a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion ... engine, the first practical gasoline-powered automobile. In 1900 Emil Jellinek, the consul general of Austria-Hungary, financed Daimler's production of a ne...

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... see why something needs to be done. Though CO2 is the most important greenhouse gas it is not the only emission that comes from a decombustion engine that creates environmental problems. Other gaseous emissions that we don't normally hear about are Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Hydrocarbons (HC), and ... 2003, 1). Vapor seeps out due to the imperfect sealing of the fuel tank, pipes and hoses, as well as other components leading to the engine. HCs also comes out the tail pipe as a result of the less-than-perfect gaseous clean up of the catalytic converter that fail to clean ...

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... eyes of the auto industry and the American government. For nearly a century, vehicles have been powered by internal combustion engines, which operate by burning its fuel inside the engine. The most common internal combustion engine is gasoline powered. Others include diesel, hydrogen, methane, or propane. From a technological perspective, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines have limitations in terms of performance and fuel-efficiency ... is in better supply world-wide- far better- than oil. It is correspondingly cheaper on a miles-per-dollar basis. It is much better than gasoli...

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... . It started in 1887 when Emile Levassor, met Gottlieb Daimler. Levassor negotiated a license to manufacture the new "high-speed" gasoline engine produced by Daimler. By the early 1890's, P&L could build several hundred automobiles in a year. The simple car with the engine at the front, passengers in rows behind and the motor driving the rear wheels. P&L's workforce was composed of skilled craftsmen who ... was solved, the company was able to develop advanced designs that would reduce the number of parts needed and made the parts easier to attach. A good example, Ford's four-cylinder eng...

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... problems. Hydrocarbons can even cause cancer, which can lead to death. Nitrogen oxides also play a part in the destruction of the ozone. Due to the high pressure in the automobile's engine, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the air react and form this nitrogen oxide. Along with deteriorating the ozone, nitrogen oxides also help form acid rain which hurts plants and other ... them to be so environmentally friendly. Most of the pollution associated with automobiles occurs when the car is idle. The chugging of the engine releases pollutants out of the exhaust into the atmosphere. With these hyb...

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... new and maintaining highways through out Australia. By 1923 all of Melbourne's trains were electric after having to stop the process due to the war. By 1926 electric trains replaced steam engines in all capitol cities. In the mid 1920's the government had integrated road and rail transport by getting buses to pick up people at stations and taking them to ... enjoy leisure activities. Such as golf, tennis, billiards. It also shows that people were starting to have holidays. We can see the mode of transport was the car and the steam train, and the fashion worn by the people of the decade....

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... problems. Hydrocarbons can even cause cancer, which can lead to death. Nitrogen oxides also play a part in the destruction of the ozone. Due to the high pressure in the automobile's engine, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the air react and form this nitrogen oxide. Along with deteriorating the ozone, nitrogen oxides also help form acid rain which hurts plants and other ... them to be so environmentally friendly. Most of the pollution associated with automobiles occurs when the car is idle. The chugging of the engine releases pollutants out of the exhaust into the atmosphere. With these hyb...

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... was like before the revolutionary innovation of the automobile. The first automobile was invented by a French artillery officer, Nicholas Joseph Cugnot. His self-propelled vehicle was powered by steam. Other models of steam-powered automobiles were created by different innovators, but these models were eventually made obsolete by the internal-combustion powered car invented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenior. This technology reached ... ...

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... . Bill pulled into his normal place in the pits so that he could be the closest to the stating line his theory was that if he could launce with the engine cool he could make the best run and so far he had been right. Jon got out and unlocked the trailer and began to undo the chains on the car ... enough to burn the tires for a second. Jon had waited for this for a long time. In a moments notices he mashed the gas pedal to the floor and the massive racing engine came to life in a loud almost growl and a cloud of smoke coming from the tires. Woah bill said loud enough to overcome the noise...

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... fuels at this rate will eventually cause this resource to be depleted. This stresses the need for an alternate energy source to power automobiles, and the redesign of the combustion engine to use this new energy source. Pollution of the air from fossil fuels is a problem that society has been aware of for quite some time. The Environmental Protection Agency reports ... implementation of the fuel cell vehicle. Fuel cells vehicles do not pollute the air at all. These vehicles are also known as hybrid vehicles. In comparison to the internal combustion engine, which burns gasoline to produc...

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... happened? What's wrong? Are you guys OK?" "We"re both fine Dad, it's just the car." "What about the car? What happened?" "We were going up Pikes Peak and the engine caught fire. We"re OK, but the car's got over a week of repairs." "So you've already taken it somewhere?" "Well, not yet, but I have a place to take it. Dad ... done for me. He said I had enough to deal with already, and he was right. After I got off the phone with him, I received a call from Rusty with the damage. A new engine, a paint job and some other stuff, plus labor would be about 3000 dollars; a pretty good deal, but...

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... first of the three new technologies is the hybrid car. The hybrid car uses both fuel and electricity. It has an electric motor plus a small auxiliary fuel driven engine (Berger 295). The gas engine continually recharges the electric motor so there is no need for a huge battery like in an electric vehicle. Hybrids also use small electric engines on the wheels to ... ...

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... Henry grew up on the farm, but was not interested in making it a career. Henry had an inspiration when he was young. At the age of twelve, he saw a road engine. That is what made his mind veer toward creating something that made less work. He was never thrilled about farming because of the physical labor involved. Shortly after seeing the ... road engine, Henry received a watch. When the watch broke, Henry took it apart and fixed it numerous times. That led to Henry working part-time as a watch repairman. He made his own ... ...

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