Monday, September 24, 2007 - :

The Idea
For hundreds of years, people longed for a vehicle that didnt have to be pushed of pulled. As early as the 1400s, italian inventor Leonardo Da Vinci drew plans for a vehicle that was driven by clockwork. Nobody believed it would work and da vinci never got around to building it anyway. But a man named Gottlieb Daimler invented the world first four-wheeled car.

The Problem
Daimler at first built a wooden bicycle with an engine and his son took his took this "motorcycle" on its first ride...
and came safely home again... The motorcycle can only fit two person only.

The Solution
The following year, Daimler tried his engine inside a carriage. The result was the world's first four-wheeled car. Although it did not travelled far...

The Legacy
By the 1890s, several companies were making cars. In France, inventors Panhard and Levassor followed Daimler's design with one major change which was having the engines at the front. After that, most cars had their engines at the front. Every car company boasted that their designs were best. So, in 1895, they decide to have a race from Paris to Bordeaux-and back again-to show who was right. Early cars were so expensive to make, onlu a handful of people could afford them. Everyone else just stood and stared as rich motorists roared by. Over the decades, racing cars became lower, sleeker and much faster. By the 1960s, they needed an extra frame at the back to stop them from taking off. Crowds at race tracks grew bigger each year, especially for the popular Grand Prix races. Everyone wanted the thrill of watching fast cars zoom past. Today, there are more cars on the roads than ever. They use up lots of fuel and puff horrible fumes into the air. Now, engineers are inventing cars that wont pollute the air . They might run on energy from the sun or give off water instead of nasty fumes. Tommorow's cars will be all kinds of astonishing shapes. Some of them may even fly.

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