Bosch Automotive A product history Journal of Bosch History Supplement 22 | Supplement 2 | Journal of Bosch History The magneto ignition device for motorized carriages that was first delivered to a customer in 1898 marks our first major milestone as an automotive supplier. There were numerous other important milestones on our way to becoming a global automotive supplier with a wide range of automotive systems, components, and services. Examples include the diesel injection pump, the Jetronic electronic gasoline-injection system, the ABS antilock braking system, the ESP® electronic stability program, and common rail. Today, our products help a lot to cut fuel consumption and emissions, and to make driving safer and more comfortable. Bosch technology can be found in virtually every vehicle on the road, whether helping to stabilize vehicle dynamics in critical situations, automatically maintaining a s...
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The Automobile and Gender: An Historical Perspective Martin Wachs THE AUTOMOBILE AND GENDER: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE INTRODUCTION GENDER STEREOTYPING AND THE MODERN AUTOMOBILE Many have observed that when men get lost while driving they will seldom stop to ask for directions, while women who are lost will usually pull into a gas station or convenience store or ask a passerby for directions. This supposed gender-linked trait may be an example of simple folk wisdom and may be real or imagined, but it was recently taken very seriously in an open piece by Robyn Meredith in The New York Times on August 26th. The article dealt with the emerging technology of intelligent transportation systems, and described some newly available automobile navigation systems and several others that are still in development. The article reported some findings that should be of interest to those of us attending a conference on Women’s Travel Issues. Meredith concluded that on-board navigatio...
Early Automobile History One hundred years ago, the first Model T automobile was made. The Model T automobile was not the first car to be built, but it was the first widely affordable mass-produced car. The first Model T was built for sale on October 1, 1908, at a price of about $850. Between 1908 and 1927, a total of 15 million Model Ts were sold. By the 1920s, half of all the cars in America were model Ts. The 1925 Model T touring car cost about $260 at a time when the average annual income in America was $1236.1 In January 1906, Dr. C.C. Bachman purchased the first automobile to be owned in Waterloo. His car was a 15 horsepower Pope that he purchased at the automobile show in New York City. In July of that same year, H.I. Buttery purchased a 25 horsepower Pope Hartford automobile that he drove from Syracuse to Waterloo.2 Automobiles, however, had been ...
Car: The Definitive Visual History of the Automobile Car: The Definitive Visual History of the Automobile English | 360 pages | PDF | 110 MB Tracing the history of the automobile, from the first prototypes to the super cars of today, Car covers the technological developments and manufacture of cars, the cultural backdrop against which the various models arose, and the enduring impact the car has had on society as an object of curiosity, symbol of luxury, and item of necessity. The most lavishly illustrated treatment of the subject on the market, featuring the most noteworthy cars of each decade in beautifully photographed catalogs, Car is truly an international view of the automobile through time, with histories of the men and machines that created brands which are now household names.
The History of Cars
The History of Cars Background Information for Teachers Our World is a Car World Try to imagine our world without cars. Of course not every person in the world owns or even needs a car to live their lives. However, in North America our quality of life is often defined by the power and style of our vehicles. It is important to us that our cars take us to where we need to be and to where we want to go. They get us to work and take us out to the movies. Today, we’d be hard pressed to get our groceries, let alone go on vacation without the vehicles that we drive or even the public transportation that we use. Some of us even drive our cars for pure enjoyment. The Wheel The invention of the wheel paved the way for transportation as we know it today. Historians don’t know exactly who invented the wheel, but the oldest wheel discovered so far is believed to be over 5,500 years old. The dev...
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