Car
By the year 1500 the majority of wheeled vehicles, in the parts of the world where they were still being used at all, were lowly two-wheeled agricultural carts. Five thousand years after the invention of the wheel, it was still not in widespread use. In North Africa and much of the Middle East it had been abandoned altogether; medieval Arabic and P
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
A chariot is a two-wheeled vehicle with spoked wheels and a standing driver, pulled by bitted horses, and usually driven at a gallop. A two-wheeler with solid wheels or a seated driver is a cart, not a chariot. Carts, like wagons, were work vehicles. Chariots were the first wheeled vehicles designed for speed, an innovation that changed land transp
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Great as have been the engineering advances since 1920, we have today basically the same kind of machine that was created in the first twenty years of the industry. We still deal with a vehicle moved by a gasoline engine. The heart of the engine is still a piston in a cylinder, moved by the burning of a mixture of gasoline and air, which is fired a
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