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    The history of cars began in the late 17th century with experimental steam-powered vehicles. In the 18th century, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first self-propelled vehicle large enough to transport passengers. Throughout the 19th century, improvements were made to steam-powered vehicles, including hand brakes and gearboxes. However, internal combustion engines eventually replaced steam power in the early 20th century as cars became widely available and relied upon in advanced economies. The Model T, produced in high volume from 1908, was one of the first automobiles available to the general public.

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    The history of cars began in the late 17th century with experimental steam-powered vehicles. In the 18th century, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first self-propelled vehicle large enough to transport passengers. Throughout the 19th century, improvements were made to steam-powered vehicles, including hand brakes and gearboxes. However, internal combustion engines eventually replaced steam power in the early 20th century as cars became widely available and relied upon in advanced economies. The Model T, produced in high volume from 1908, was one of the first automobiles available to the general public.

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    The history of cars began in the late 17th century with experimental steam-powered vehicles. In the 18th century, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first self-propelled vehicle large enough to transport passengers. Throughout the 19th century, improvements were made to steam-powered vehicles, including hand brakes and gearboxes. However, internal combustion engines eventually replaced steam power in the early 20th century as cars became widely available and relied upon in advanced economies. The Model T, produced in high volume from 1908, was one of the first automobiles available to the general public.

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    The History Of Cars

    Made by Yaman Eyad Alhariri

    The car is a wheeled motor vehicle that is used to carry people


    and goods.
    People before cars used to ride horses and camels and after a
    short time they used horses and wagons

    Around the 17th century in 1672, a member of a Jesuit mission


    in China created a steam-powered vehicle for the Kangxi
    Emperor as a toy. It was small-scale and didn't have room for a
    driver, but it was the first functional steam-powered vehicle.

    But In the late 18th century, steam-powered self-propelled


    vehicles are big enough to transport passengers and freight
    were invented.
    The History Of Cars

    In the 18th century in 1770 and 1771, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot


    showed his steam dray, an experimental steam-powered artillery
    tractor.

    Attempts were made in the 19th century to create workable


    steam-powered vehicles. Hand brakes, multi-speed gearboxes,
    and improved steering were created. Many self-propelled
    vehicles on public roads were required to be preceded by a
    man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn until a
    backlash against these large vehicles resulted in legislation such
    as the United Kingdom Locomotive Act in 1865, which required
    many self-propelled vehicles on public roads to be preceded by
    a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn.

    And also in 19th century Josef Bozek, a professor at Prague


    Polytechnic, created an oil-fired steam automobile in 1816.
    Walter Hancock, a London steam bus constructor and operator,
    created a two-seated vehicle phaeton in 1838.
    The History Of Cars

    In the 20th century Steam-powered road vehicles, such as cars


    and wagons, reached their peak of development in the early
    1930s, owing to lightweight fast-steaming boilers and efficient
    engine designs. Internal combustion engines evolved greatly
    over the twentieth century, becoming easier to operate and
    more dependable. Beginning around 1930, the development of
    the high-speed diesel engine began to replace them for
    wagons, hastened in the United Kingdom by tax changes that
    made steam wagons uneconomical overnight.

    Cars became widely used around the world during the


    twentieth century, and advanced economies rely on them.
    When German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-
    Motorwagen in 1886, it is considered the birth year of the
    automobile. Automobiles became readily available in the early
    20th century.

    The 1908 Model T, an American automobile built by the Ford


    Motor Company, was one of the first cars available to the
    general public.
    The History Of Cars

    The end
    Made by Yaman eyad Alhariri
    Teacher : Mr disouki

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