A replica of Cugnot's 1766 steam trike, in full working order, at the Avignon Motor Festival, 2011. The original sits in the Arts et Metiers museum in Paris
That vehicle was not able to move on a hilly battlefield, it was designed to move cannons throughout a city. The original also had a flat bed for the cannons, that one has two giant "kegs" on it.
I remember reading about this at school (many years ago) and could never quite believe it worked. But seeing it here is proof it did work. What an utterly amazing development for 1766! Pity they put the firebox door on the wrong side of the boiler!!
This vehicle is 250 years old right now. Goddamn, 250 years allready. People could use massively such tech from the end of XVIII cent. - in fact they could develop lot of new tech earlier, like cars in first thind of XIX cent., tractors and tanks in late XIX. All that could speed up progress faster. And by now we could have already colonies in Solar system...
Gentleman 1: "I say, good sir! Would you awfully mind opening the throttle?" Gentleman 2: "Why sir, is this not fast enough for you?" Gentleman 1: "I believe my horse is faster!" Gentleman 2: "How could you say such a thing?!"
This is Front Wheel Drive. It's also effectively the Very First Automobile in the World. All these people on here complaining about it should think about how we wouldn't have the cars we have today (internal combustion engine or electric) if it wasn't for the steam car (and this was the Invention of those). Steam was the first source of power for the Automobile and everything for the Car was exclusively designed, developed, engineered, invented, texted and put into action in the Western World in the 18th and 19th Centuries before fully accelerating in the last Quater of the 19th Century which saw the 20th Century become the first Nonstop Century of Automobiles.
If I remember my history of the automobile correctly, it was also responsible for possibly the first automobile accident on record. It was so heavy it had a gear reduction steering gear and it was run into a stone wall before enough turns of the steering could be accomplished.
Everything’s gotta start somewhere. It's not like some dude back in the 1700's walked into the barn to shovel some horse shit and he said to himself "You know, I think I'll build me a Lamborghini!" A steam engine is invented and someone (probably drunk) said "HEY! put wheels on it and let's see if we can ride it!"
It wasn't until 120 years later that the design was refined. That would be like if the phonotograph (sound recorder) was invented in the 1860s (which it was) and there weren't any other designs of it until the 1980s. We came a long way
It's slow, but it also has a lot more power than you could manage by just pushing the cart. In fact, I'd wager it has at least as much pulling power as a team of horses but without most of their disadvantages. Early applications of motive power - in this case steam, but it could as easily have been some other source - were for industrial and load-hauling purposes, not for rapid passenger transport. If you've got a bulky load, moving it at all is much more important than going fast when unladen.
1766: I am Thomas Jefferson, and this is my associate Paul Revere, would you kind ladies like to go to a Tea Party with us? Nothing has changed has it...
So that's what caused it ... the stories I read just said it "ran out of control". I assumed a valve jammed open or something and they couldn't get it to stop. Though, I don't see any brakes either, so it could be effectively the first case of entering a turn too fast and understeering into the scenery :D
Napoleon thought it was a waste of cash when they already had so many horses kicking around, I guess. Now, if only he'd been at the forefront of the powered transport revolution, more than fifty years ahead of anyone else's attempts... that'd be one very different alternate timeline.
its not the oldest,, the first steam powered trolly/buss was introduced in London for service in 1667, the first one blew up, but the remaining 3 stayed in service until 1710
Augustas Juodis Wind powered. And the Toltecs had much more sophisticated means of travel. Also not to mention the Chinese used gunpowder rockets to help shift heavy loads short distances.
i tried looking about Toltec technology but could not found anything about it can you maybe give a link. I am interested what sophisticated technology they used for travel.
The Toltecs are the people who came from th e stars and who shared some of their technology with the ancient Egyptians. The technology they shared was limited to battery design which was used to harden tools and electro plating and also to provide lighting.
What for them is very slow and it is harmful to the environment because of the carbon is no difference between them and walk on your feet might interest they convey heavy stuff but it will not reach the furthest frustration as if you on a camel
You're also sloW to learn English it seems. It's (short for it is). Never knew they even had internet in Moldavia, seeing as it is the poorest country in Europe (maybe Kosovo is poorer still).
Bullshit Chew Bacca and The Regulator. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen managed to take three people 120 miles. Richard Trevithick's "Puffing Devil" wasn't entirely brilliant, but worked reasonably well. Martin Cooper's mobile phone had a call time of 30 minutes. And Ugg's wheel survived for thousands of years before Napoleon destroyed it in 1815, just before the Battle of Waterloo.Cugnot's 1766 steam trike on the other hand was shit and it amounted to shit. Even by the standards of the day, the boiler was terrible. It couldn't climb hills, it tended to tip over going around corners, (the maximum speed was less than 3 mph. Your own fat arses corner better than that), you couldn't see where you were going because of the boiler displacement and it crashed through a wall. Eventually they ditched the whole thing as being a colossal waste of time, which it was. Modern cars have NOTHING to do with this thing, and rightly so.
Please don't talk shit about subjects you obviously know little about (not "nothing", but definitely "just enough to embarrass yourself with and no more"). The first steam engines were huge, static affairs which operated in a linear (but still reciprocating) fashion drawing water up from mine shafts, sometimes even with manually operated valves - but the automatic ones still didn't have wheels. Even here, we can see it doesn't actually have a crank - it's basically a beam engine with a ratchet
That would be pretty dang scary to see that thing pumping down your street in 1766...
You can have an entire fucking orchestra playing your favourite classics back on that thing, true stereo. No car ever got such sound system
orchestra 😂😂 true stereo 😂😂
dude i could get so many hoes with this car. edison phonograph sound system beatin down the block. 200 inch rims my nigga
+digitalblasphemy1100 It aint even steam, it's Cognac.
That vehicle was not able to move on a hilly battlefield, it was designed to move cannons throughout a city. The original also had a flat bed for the cannons, that one has two giant "kegs" on it.
They see me rollin', they hatin'....
Lmao
I remember reading about this at school (many years ago) and could never quite believe it worked. But seeing it here is proof it did work. What an utterly amazing development for 1766!
Pity they put the firebox door on the wrong side of the boiler!!
Indeed it did work unfortunately the steering was weird and hard to turn thus it crashed into a wall
JasonJason210 The 🔥fire door being in the front would get more oxigene for burning!? 😂Haha.
This vehicle is 250 years old right now.
Goddamn, 250 years allready. People could use massively such tech from the end of XVIII cent. - in fact they could develop lot of new tech earlier, like cars in first thind of XIX cent., tractors and tanks in late XIX. All that could speed up progress faster.
And by now we could have already colonies in Solar system...
It's like walking, only not as fast.
Tiberian Fiend it was for towing heavy objects that horses would be to tired to pull long distances.
Example cannons
@Tiberian Fiend:
Ohhhh, I sure am pooped driving this car! **puff huff puff** OHHHhhhHHH, my feet ache! Yet somehow my buckle-shoes last longer....
Very fascinating to bad it crashed and Cugnot was forced to abandon it after he was arrested
looks like it's ready for some colonial drag racing.
better than a civic
show up to the prom with that!!!!! hahahaha
Aguvika I guarantee the person would get alot of attention and want to take selfies and create memes.
Bet there is a couple of massive sub woofers in their wooden "trunk" there.
Beautiful and advanced(for the time)!
1766 version of dey see me rollinn
Gentleman 1: "I say, good sir! Would you awfully mind opening the throttle?"
Gentleman 2: "Why sir, is this not fast enough for you?"
Gentleman 1: "I believe my horse is faster!"
Gentleman 2: "How could you say such a thing?!"
Look at how far cars have come!! AMAZING!!
This is Front Wheel Drive. It's also effectively the Very First Automobile in the World. All these people on here complaining about it should think about how we wouldn't have the cars we have today (internal combustion engine or electric) if it wasn't for the steam car (and this was the Invention of those). Steam was the first source of power for the Automobile and everything for the Car was exclusively designed, developed, engineered, invented, texted and put into action in the Western World in the 18th and 19th Centuries before fully accelerating in the last Quater of the 19th Century which saw the 20th Century become the first Nonstop Century of Automobiles.
So basically this vehicle/train is designed to haul beer barrels 5 miles per hour?
This thing only gets 2 miles per cord
On the year 1766!!!!....... less connecting rod and whith forward and reverse!!!!... bravo for him......
The Fast and Furious prequel looks dope!
If I remember my history of the automobile correctly, it was also responsible for possibly the first automobile accident on record. It was so heavy it had a gear reduction steering gear and it was run into a stone wall before enough turns of the steering could be accomplished.
The 420-Mobile.
If cars were like that now, I dont think Car Chases would be as exciting xD
just off to the shop to buy some milk love
Pimp my ride!
The seat warmer was optional but the sun roof was mandatory.
Everything’s gotta start somewhere.
It's not like some dude back in the 1700's walked into the barn to shovel some horse shit and he said to himself "You know, I think I'll build me a Lamborghini!"
A steam engine is invented and someone (probably drunk) said "HEY! put wheels on it and let's see if we can ride it!"
Pull up into highschool with a classic car "whats up bitches!"
So that's where Lincolns bath tub went.
Wow! That is really cool!
Reliant came a long way?
Now imagine that thing flying out of control into a brick wall...
so....how do you turn? pull it with horses?
Proof that AWD drive was invented two and half centuries ago.
It wasn't until 120 years later that the design was refined. That would be like if the phonotograph (sound recorder) was invented in the 1860s (which it was) and there weren't any other designs of it until the 1980s. We came a long way
Who came from the link given in the computer book ?
Me 💀💀💀
a car in a mobile grill fucking nice
The ancient motor vehicle.
Why did they stop building them?
I am here from kips IT book page 168
Yes it was 1769
no deja de impresionarme la tecnologia de vapor
I've just decided...it's going in my faves!
Hope they got a boiler inspection certificate for that thing. I think it was originally intended to haul arterilery. Fat chance but nice try.
It's slow, but it also has a lot more power than you could manage by just pushing the cart. In fact, I'd wager it has at least as much pulling power as a team of horses but without most of their disadvantages.
Early applications of motive power - in this case steam, but it could as easily have been some other source - were for industrial and load-hauling purposes, not for rapid passenger transport. If you've got a bulky load, moving it at all is much more important than going fast when unladen.
What a contraption!
NYONE FROM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CLASS 10
It would be a bit of a stretch to describe it as "flying out of control!" It's more slowmotion! :D
1766: I am Thomas Jefferson, and this is my associate Paul Revere, would you kind ladies like to go to a Tea Party with us?
Nothing has changed has it...
all I know is the original one crashed into a wall and is known as the first "automobile" accident in history.
Si est Muovo .
I moves, man and that is a Miracle. I would love to race it against the SSC that broke the Sound barrier. That will be fun.
Made in 1766 the cugnot steamer took the title of world's first horse less carriage
the first car owend by Larry King, thanks for posting : - { )
This should've been added to Gran Turismo 4 along with the 1886 cars.
So that's what caused it ... the stories I read just said it "ran out of control". I assumed a valve jammed open or something and they couldn't get it to stop. Though, I don't see any brakes either, so it could be effectively the first case of entering a turn too fast and understeering into the scenery :D
Napoleon thought it was a waste of cash when they already had so many horses kicking around, I guess.
Now, if only he'd been at the forefront of the powered transport revolution, more than fifty years ahead of anyone else's attempts... that'd be one very different alternate timeline.
This was made the same year he was born.
How Far We've Come....>_
NOT VERY FAST IS IT
FWD
and still more efficient than your prius!
2 mph so every1 can see
2mph so every1 can see
No need to imagine it - it happened to the real thing.
I wonder who got the first DUI or DWI on this 😂
imagine serial production nd thousands are on the ways in city traffic..
That is not the first car, the first car was a steam car with a turbine instead of a motor
Wow
its not the oldest,, the first steam powered trolly/buss was introduced in London for service in 1667, the first one blew up, but the remaining 3 stayed in service until 1710
London's first steam carriage was 1803. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Steam_Carriage
ah, hills... it's only weakness.
I'd think I'd get the Benz Patent Wagon instead.
I still say a good old horse or mule would be better to haul a few barrels of beer.
No beer: this chariot was think from Cugnot to tow a canon + amunition for it (barrels of black powder and bullets)
Wow, it is so old, also not matching up to today's cars!
Oh, man, that'd be interesting! Maybe not the fastest. 😆
still runs better than a ford
it must be a pain in the arse to drive it with steam everywhere and steam cooking you up
that's spooooky
They see me operating my automobile. They are prejudiced.
A bit of a latecomer. Powered vehicles where around for a few thousand years before this.
+thra5herxb12s you mean animal powered but not self powered like this one
Augustas Juodis Wind powered. And the Toltecs had much more sophisticated means of travel. Also not to mention the Chinese used gunpowder rockets to help shift heavy loads short distances.
i tried looking about Toltec technology but could not found anything about it can you maybe give a link. I am interested what sophisticated technology they used for travel.
The Toltecs are the people who came from th e stars and who shared some of their technology with the ancient Egyptians. The technology they shared was limited to battery design which was used to harden tools and electro plating and also to provide lighting.
+thra5herxb12s Lmao. Dude was asking for legit info then you go off on that BS about aliens.
This must be down in first gear, top speed's supposed to be about 4mph isn't it? :D
and that's why most car drivers before died in lung cancer instead of car accidents.
Who see this video in 2030 ?
Vtec power
What for them is very slow and it is harmful to the environment because of the carbon is no difference between them and walk on your feet might interest they convey heavy stuff but it will not reach the furthest frustration as if you on a camel
I think if i walked I could have been there faster, what was the point of this invention
the point of it was cannon transport, to save horses and men for the army....
To war! HAHAHA
the first auto fatality was a hundred years later in 1869 ... a woman pedestrian
Lol jane smith
Time to Unpimp z'auto?
That's not the first steam powers vehicle
It is the first steam-powered vehicle that carried humans, though
Lol.
You're also sloW to learn English it seems.
It's (short for it is).
Never knew they even had internet in Moldavia, seeing as it is the poorest country in Europe (maybe Kosovo is poorer still).
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It wasn't really good for much, was it?
Neither was the first mobile phone.
Neither was the first wheel Neither was the first mobile phone. Neither was the first train
Bullshit Chew Bacca and The Regulator. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen managed to take three people 120 miles. Richard Trevithick's "Puffing Devil" wasn't entirely brilliant, but worked reasonably well. Martin Cooper's mobile phone had a call time of 30 minutes. And Ugg's wheel survived for thousands of years before Napoleon destroyed it in 1815, just before the Battle of Waterloo.Cugnot's 1766 steam trike on the other hand was shit and it amounted to shit. Even by the standards of the day, the boiler was terrible. It couldn't climb hills, it tended to tip over going around corners, (the maximum speed was less than 3 mph. Your own fat arses corner better than that), you couldn't see where you were going because of the boiler displacement and it crashed through a wall. Eventually they ditched the whole thing as being a colossal waste of time, which it was. Modern cars have NOTHING to do with this thing, and rightly so.
Ahhh - ratchet drive ! if it went down a hill it would run away uncontrollably.
If a black person owned this they wojld put nicer rims on it
Please don't talk shit about subjects you obviously know little about (not "nothing", but definitely "just enough to embarrass yourself with and no more").
The first steam engines were huge, static affairs which operated in a linear (but still reciprocating) fashion drawing water up from mine shafts, sometimes even with manually operated valves - but the automatic ones still didn't have wheels.
Even here, we can see it doesn't actually have a crank - it's basically a beam engine with a ratchet