Cars Past Present and Future
Cars: past, present & future
Throughout the history of the automobile, there has been one factor that has determined its evolution. That factor, quite simply, is innovation. Every once in a while, there comes along a car that is so revolutionary, and has features so unique that the entire industry soon follows. This paper will help u understand how this process works, but to help you understand better ill take u back to when cars came from thought to reality , then I’ll show u how far we have come sense then and what u can expect to come in the future. Our journey first begins in 1886with a German engineer Karl Benz who produced the world’s first production car, the Benz Motorwagen. In the period from the late 1800s until the early 1900s, the world viewed the automobile with suspicion. Faster, more powerful, and potentially much more dangerous than the conventional horse and buggy, the first automobiles were regarded merely as expensive toys, made for those with more money than sense. However, a former farmer from Michigan would change that idea forever. Henry Ford lived on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan. Born to farmers, he immediately developed an interest in all things mechanical. In 1896, Ford put four wheels and a small gas motor on a buckboard and created his first car, the Quadricycle. By 1900, he was looking for established investors willing to cash in on his automotive ambitions. His first two attempts failed, but in 1903 he founded the Ford Motor Company of Dearborn, Michigan. His first car, the Model A, was typical of the automobiles of the time; it cost well over a few thousand dollars, putting it out of reach of most Americans. For the next few years, Ford watched his company, like the hundreds of others around the area, struggle, but in 1907, after visiting a meat-packing factory, Ford developed an idea that would change history as we know it. He observed the process being done, one which was called mass-production. Mass-production was not
Throughout the history of the automobile, there has been one factor that has determined its evolution. That factor, quite simply, is innovation. Every once in a while, there comes along a car that is so revolutionary, and has features so unique that the entire industry soon follows. This paper will help u understand how this process works, but to help you understand better ill take u back to when cars came from thought to reality , then I’ll show u how far we have come sense then and what u can expect to come in the future. Our journey first begins in 1886with a German engineer Karl Benz who produced the world’s first production car, the Benz Motorwagen. In the period from the late 1800s until the early 1900s, the world viewed the automobile with suspicion. Faster, more powerful, and potentially much more dangerous than the conventional horse and buggy, the first automobiles were regarded merely as expensive toys, made for those with more money than sense. However, a former farmer from Michigan would change that idea forever. Henry Ford lived on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan. Born to farmers, he immediately developed an interest in all things mechanical. In 1896, Ford put four wheels and a small gas motor on a buckboard and created his first car, the Quadricycle. By 1900, he was looking for established investors willing to cash in on his automotive ambitions. His first two attempts failed, but in 1903 he founded the Ford Motor Company of Dearborn, Michigan. His first car, the Model A, was typical of the automobiles of the time; it cost well over a few thousand dollars, putting it out of reach of most Americans. For the next few years, Ford watched his company, like the hundreds of others around the area, struggle, but in 1907, after visiting a meat-packing factory, Ford developed an idea that would change history as we know it. He observed the process being done, one which was called mass-production. Mass-production was not