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    Motors And Motor-Driving - A Short History Of The Motor Car
    Motors And Motor-Driving - A Short History Of The Motor Car
    Motors And Motor-Driving - A Short History Of The Motor Car
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    Motors And Motor-Driving - A Short History Of The Motor Car

    By Gaston De Chasseloup-Laubat

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 7, 2016
    ISBN9781473352582
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      Motors And Motor-Driving - A Short History Of The Motor Car - Gaston De Chasseloup-Laubat

      MOTOR-DRIVING

      MOTORS AND MOTOR-DRIVING

      A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MOTOR-CAR

      WHEN I was first invited to write a brief History of the Motor-Car, I at once realised that I could not do so without repeating much which was contained in an article entitled ‘Recent Progress of Automobilism in France,’ which I wrote for the ‘North American Review’ in September 1899.¹

      It is more than a century since, in 1769, automobilism was born in France, with the steam carriage of Cugnot. This vehicle was of a crude, rudimentary, and incomplete construction. The ideas of Cugnot were an entire century in advance of the mechanical means by which they could be realised.

      The attempt led to no satisfactory results. Everything was defective—motive-power, steering, control. Nevertheless, the carriage ran, and ran so well, they say, that it broke down the enclosure of the ground on which it was tried. It is an incontestable fact that Cugnot is the inventor of automobile locomotion, and that the honour of first having imagined and realised a new method of transport, destined to play an important part in the welfare of many lands, belongs to him.

      At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the great wars of American Independence, of the First Republic, and of the First Empire turned the spirit of France aside from new effort in the way of any kind of locomotion.

      It was in England, towards the third decade of the nineteenth century, that we saw the idea of Cugnot reappear. The same impulse which moved English engineers to build railroads in order to free the great industrial centres from the economic tyranny of those who constructed canals, urged them to study methods of automobile locomotion on highways. That is to say, in its inception, automobile locomotion was considered. as an auxiliary to the railroad, which it really is.

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