Cars History

You might think you know about cars and about their history, but infact, you don't know the half of it. However, you will by the end of this paper. The first thing you have to realize is that Merriam Webster defines an automobile as a self powered transport device, usually having four wheels; now having said that, that is only the tip of this iceberg. For example, did you know that the idea of cars go back as far as the 1400’s. In 1478, Leonardo da Vinci designed a self powered, cart-like vehicle, that worked sort of like a wind up car. Now, to be fair, it was not a car in the traditional sense, for it was powered by a wind up mechanism and it had no seats (seats could have been added fairly easily). Even with it being spring driven it …show more content…
He improved on Gottlieb Daimler's engine idea and made the engine and other components that made the engine better that not only powered Ford Motor Company’s (Henry’s car manufacturing company) early cars, but became the benchmark for the engines of the time. Also, along with that, his version of mass production made it possible to have a cheap mass produced car. He, in my opinion, is the father of the modern car. However, those innovations made by Henry Ford aren't the only innovations made to the car. For example, with the innovation of the carburetor came the Electronic Fuel Injection, or EFI for short (This is what all modern cars come with now). An EFI system is basically a computerized version of carburetor. Instead of a mechanical ignition, fuel metering, and throttle systems everything is automated and controlled by an onboard computer. The fact that everything on the engine is automated, makes for a much more reliable engine. Yet with the arrival of this new innovation, gone is the easy to work on engine, for with the added computers comes more complexity when it comes to trying to fix them. Where as even I, a young kid, can fix a carburetor, you would need training of some sort to fix an EFI