Name: Old Cars VS New Cars
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T01:43:00.000Z
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I’ll fill you in while we’re on the road — I’m being pursued, and we’re jumping

I’ll tell you everything, but first I need you to learn a bit about the history of automobiles.

That’s important, and you’ll soon learn why.

Allright, we start at the veeery beginning, and we drive really slowly because otherwise

Let’s not bother him, because it’s Sir Isaac Newton.

Yes, the Sir Newton: it’s year 1687, when he published his works on the Three Laws of

They were arguably the impulse engineers needed to start thinking about automobiles.

It took almost another century, though, before the magic happened.

Accelerating now… and here we are, in 1769.

I need to drop the speed again because we’re overtaking the first actual road vehicle in

It was a steam-powered car invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.

It was first intended for military purposes.

It had only three wheels and was more of a tractor than an actual car.

The steam engine took a large portion of its size, and weight too, for that matter.

Needless to say, it was a heavy vehicle, capable of moving at only 2.5 mph, but it was a breakthrough

Many other prototypes followed, and among the more successful ones was an electric carriage

Hold on tight, we’re accelerating again!

A crude thing, but just think about it: this carriage is the first electric car in history!

Anyway, this thing moves not much faster than its steam-powered predecessor — its speed

At the same time, look around: steam coaches are everywhere!

These are their last days, though, because in 1840 they’ll be banned in the UK.

They’re simply too heavy to be used on regular roads.

I’ll jump us to 1845 now, hold on… here we are — see?

A railroad is being built in the distance.

That’s the result of the steam car ban.

Now, the first proper car was invented in 1886, and there are two people sharing the

On the left is a gas-powered automobile made by Karl Friedrich Benz.

It has three wheels, and it was never a serial car.

On the right is a more traditional four-wheeled vehicle made by Gottlieb Daimler, which was

Both were experiments of talented engineers, and as you’ll see in a moment…

We’ve just jumped to year 1891, and you can see lots of Peugeot cars around us.

All of them run on engines patented by Benz and Daimler, who built their initial capital

But if we just fast forward to 1901… we’ll see the first Mercedes cars designed by Wilhelm

Maybach — Daimler’s business partner.

There aren’t yet too many cars for a traffic jam, but lots of them already look identical.

These are Benz Velo — the first automobiles to be produced in large numbers and with similar

Before them, every car was unique, and you can see it even now.

Now, let’s take a quick stroke across the US: here, in 1893, which is already before

our current time, brothers Charles and Frank Duryea assembled their first gas-powered car

and soon became the largest car manufacturers in the United States.

By now, that is, by 1901, they’ve sold dozens of expensive limousines… which you can hardly

see in the crowd of roofless carriages, all similar to each other.

These are Curved Dash Oldsmobiles — the first mass-produced cars in the USA.

Ransom Eli Olds invented the assembly line prototype and moved to Detroit to start his

His cars will be at the top of the automotive world for three more years.

But we’ll skip seven and go to 1908, because… …here’s where the real thing begins.

That’s because it’s Model T — Henry Ford’s most famous mass-produced car, Tin

Thanks to the state-of-the-art assembly lines, it takes only 93 minutes to assemble one Model

T. Wonder what happens to it in, say, 20 years?

Here we go, 1927, and the road is packed with Lizzies!

By now, Ford has produced over 15 million of these cars, and improved them with every

passing year, making them more efficient and comfortable, while still affordable.

Oh, look, that’s my favorite: see that Model T going down the hill?

It’s actually going up, but in reverse.

The fuel is fed to the engine with the help of gravity, and the reverse gear gives more

Okay now, I think we’re stuck in this jam for quite a while.

Traffic jams are even more of a nuisance, but at least we’re not in one now.

It’s Duesenberg Model J — the most luxurious and powerful car of the first half of the

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