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Who created the car?

Unlike many great events, no one can take credit for the invention of the automobile. It has reached its current level of excellence as a result of the application of a huge number of ideas over many decades.

The first self-propelled land vehicle with an engine for practical use was built in 1769 by the Frenchman Nicolas Cugno. It was a bulky three-wheeled carriage with a steam engine and a huge boiler. He moved at a speed of 5 km / h and had to replenish fuel supplies every 24 kilometers!

In 1789, the American Oliver Evans was the first in the United States to receive a patent for a self-propelled carriage. It was a four-wheeled wagon with a paddle wheel in the back so that it could move both on land and in water. He weighed 19 tons!

Almost 80 years later, experiments with self-propelled carriages were continued. Most of them were steam powered, although some were powered by electricity and had to carry, in addition to passengers, heavy batteries. Finally, in the 80s, two inventions were made that paved the way for the modern automobile. One of them is the development of an internal combustion engine, the other is the invention of a pneumatic or tubeless tire.

The first gasoline-powered car was put on the road in 1887 by the German Gottlieb Daimler. In the United States, two brothers, Frank and Charles Dury, built the first successful American gasoline car in 1892 or 1893. Their car is known as the "horseless convertible". In fact, all the early American cars that followed it copied it in many ways! No one has made an attempt to develop a completely different type of car. That's all other inventors did: they added a gasoline internal combustion engine to it and a connecting drive belt to transfer traction to the rear wheels.

Only after cars became a familiar means of transportation, the attention of the creators of cars turned to how to make it more convenient and powerful. Pretty quickly, they realized that the fragile shape of the convertible did not fit the car. Gradually, the familiar shape of the automobile as we know it today began to emerge. The engines were removed from under the seats and placed in front. More powerful wheels replaced light bicycle and carriage wheels, and steering wheels appeared instead of levers. And finally, instead of wood, steel was used to reinforce the structure, and our modern car became a reality.

Author: Likum A.

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The timpani player beats the membrane with wooden sticks, at the end of which there is a ball covered with felt or leather. In contrast to the short sound of the drum, the timpani make a long and booming sound, lingering, as if howling in a copper cauldron under a leather membrane. Timpani can produce a sound of a certain pitch, and this is another difference from the drum. The tighter the skin is stretched, the higher the sound will be. Today, the sound of orchestral timpani is very easy to change - you just need to press the pedal with your foot.

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