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On this day, 245 years ago, it begins the history of the automobile. The October 23, 1769, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot the first test performed risen by wagon through the streets of Paris, he later called Fardier.
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It was a kind of tricycle fitted with a steam boiler composed of a motor and two vertical cylinders. The front wheel was the tractor and, in turn, guideline to move due to displacement of 50 liters of water distributed in the cylinders
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In 1770 he built a second model larger than the first, and could drag 4.5 tons at a speed of 4 km. /
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H. With this version was produced which it could be considered 'first car accident' of history, to be impossible the correct handling of monumental vehicle, which ended crashing into a wall collapsed result of the mishap. Cugnot still had time to build a third version in 1771, which is preserved today exposed at the National Technical Museum in Paris.
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In 1784 William Murdoch built a model steam carriage and in 1801 Richard Trevithick drove a vehicle in Camborne (UK) .1 These first vehicles innovations such as the handbrake is developed, speeds and steering wheel.
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In 1815 Josef Bozek, built a car powered engine with oil. Walter Hancock, In 1838, Robert Davidson built an electric locomotive that reached 6 km per hour. Between 1832 and 1839 Robert Anderson invented the first car powered by non-rechargeable electric cells.
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Around 1870, in Vienna, the inventor Siegfried Marcus was operated internal combustion engine based gasoline, known as the "First Marcus Car". In 1883, Marcus patented a system of low-voltage ignition was introduced in subsequent models.
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- Louis Renault built his first car and founded one of the oldest and most prestigious companies in the automotive industry.
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- The 6-cylinder Hispano Suiza occurs. It is a luxurious and well-finished car, however, it had little commercial success. It served to demonstrate the great technological capability of the company.
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1926 Chrysler enters the luxury car market with the award-winning Chrysler Imperial E-80. The "80" represents more than a designation for the model: Chrysler Imperial highly sophisticated ensured that could reach 80 miles per hour about 128.7 km / h, an incredibly high speed roads of those days..
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1939 Plymouth 1939 introduced the first automatic convertible top that ran on empty. Chrysler announces "polished super" one métodopor which the moving engine parts were polished almost like mirrors to minimize friction. Another innovation this year was the semiautomatic box "Fluid Drive".
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1941 Chrysler introduces the versatile and highly stylized Town and Country. This rural, or four doors, almost entirely built of wood, had two rear doors for easy loading.
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Orizon 1978 Plymouth and Dodge Omni are the first American compact car with front wheel drive.
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1991 Chrysler offers the public the first car designed for competition "a thoroughbred" The Dodge Viper V-10. Chrysler, the undisputed leader in the market for minivans now offers 4x4 traction.
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1993 Completely refurbished in its design called "LH" broke everything known with his "cab-forward" design, which was based on the idea of bringing the wheels toward the ends for maximum protection in a crash.
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