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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Car Design 2. Model and Replica

Car Design 2. Model and Replica

Mende, Hans-Ulrich

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $58.90

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 23, 2027

ISBN10: 3869050497
ISBN13: 9783869050492
Publisher: Axel Menges
Published: Feb 23 2027
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.38
Language: English
The automobile, the self-moved vehicle, existed long before Carl Benz's patented motor car of 1886. In 1769, Frenchman Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot crashed his steam-powered vehicle into a wall on its maiden voyage. In 1875, Austrian Siegfried Marcus presented a rudimentary motor-driven vehicle. However, even Benz's threewheeled vehicle was still a long way from what we understand today as an automobile. Numerous developments followed in terms of wheels, mudguards, axles, springs, bonnets, seats, lamps, windscreens and roofs. By the turn of the century, the construction of the automobile as we know it today had been established: with four wheels of identical size and often already enclosed bodies, although formally and technically still indebted to carriage construction.

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