The Beginnings of the Automobile in Germany

Otto Nübel

Chapter 2 in The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles, 1987, pp 55-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For centuries European civilisation has been concerned with the idea, inherited from the ancients, of a self-propelled means of transport. Even in the Iliad Homer spoke of self-propelled tripods. In early modern times there were attempts to apply mechanical power of various sorts. In the mid-seventeenth century, for instance, a clockwork-driven carriage is supposed to have run through the streets of Nuremberg. Steam was tried also, but the early steam engines were cumbersome and in locomotive form required special iron roads to run upon if they were to operate satisfactorily.

Keywords: Motor Vehicle; Internal Combustion Engine; Grand Duchy; Contemporary Newspaper; Barbed Wire Fence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_2

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