Invention of the Car A History of the Automobile

The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines, and by that definition, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the  first automobile  in 1769 — recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first. So why do so many history books say that the automobile was invented by either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz? It is because both Daimler and Benz invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles. Daimler and Benz invented cars that looked and worked like the cars we use today. However, it is unfair to say that either man invented the automobile. Internal Combustion Engine: The Heart of the Automobile An internal combustion engine is an engine that uses the explosive combustion of fuel to push a piston within a cylinder —  the pistons movement turns a crankshaft that then turns the car wheels via a chain or a drive shaft.  The different types of fuel commonly used for car combustion engines are gasoline (or petrol), diesel, and kerosene. A brief outline of the history of the internal combustion engine includes the following highlights: 1680  - Dutch physicist,  Christian Huygens  designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder.1807  - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine — the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.1824  - English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooters Hill in London.1858  -  Belgian-born  engineer,  Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas.  In 1863,  Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete a  historic fifty-mile road trip.  1862  - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a Fr ench  civil engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke engine (French patent #52,593, January 16, 1862).1864  -  Austrian engineer,  Siegfried Marcus, built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. Several years later, Marcus designed a vehicle that briefly ran at 10 mph, which a few historians have considered as the forerunner of the modern automobile by being the worlds first gasoline-powered vehicle (however, read  conflicting notes  below).1873  - George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first  safe and practical oil engine.1866  - German engineers, Eugen Langen, and Nicolaus August Otto improved on Lenoirs and de Rochas designs and invented a more efficient gas engine.1876  - Nicolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known a s the Otto cycle.1876  - The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.1883 -  French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car, however, Delamare-Deboutevilles designs were very advanced for the time — ahead of both Daimler and Benz in some ways at least on paper.1885  - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine — with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the Reitwagen (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the worlds first four-wheeled motor vehicle.1886  - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.1889  - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.1890  -  Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine. Engine design and car design were integral activities, almost all of the engine designers mentioned above also designed cars, and a few went on to become major manufacturers of automobiles.  All of these inventors and more made notable improvements in the evolution of the internal combustion vehicles. The Importance of Nicolaus Otto One of the most important landmarks in engine design comes from Nicolaus August Otto who in 1876 invented an effective gas motor engine. Otto built the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine called the Otto Cycle Engine, and as soon as he had completed his engine, he built it into a motorcycle. Ottos contributions were very historically significant, it was his four-stroke engine that was universally adopted for all liquid-fueled automobiles going forward. Karl Benz In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the worlds first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. On January 29, 1886, Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car. It was a three-wheeler; Benz built his first four-wheeled car in 1891. Benz Cie., the company started by the inventor, became the worlds largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1900. Benz was the first inventor to integrate an internal combustion engine with a chassis - designing both together. Gottlieb Daimler In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler (together with his design partner Wilhelm Maybach) took Ottos internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine. Daimlers connection to Otto was a direct one; Daimler worked as technical director of Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik, which Nikolaus Otto co-owned in 1872. There is some controversy as to who built the first  motorcycle, Otto or Daimler. The 1885 Daimler-Maybach engine was small, lightweight, fast, used a gasoline-injected carburetor, and had a vertical cylinder. The size, speed, and efficiency of the engine allowed for a revolution in car design.  On March 8, 1886, Daimler took a stagecoach and adapted it to hold his engine, thereby designing the worlds  first four-wheeled automobile.  Daimler is considered the first inventor to have invented a practical internal-combustion engine. In 1889, Daimler invented a V-slanted two cylinder, four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves. Just like Ottos 1876 engine, Daimlers new engine set the basis for all car engines going forward. Also in 1889, Daimler and Maybach built their first automobile from the ground up, they did not adapt another purpose vehicle as they had always been done previously. The new Daimler automobile had a  four-speed transmission and obtained speeds of 10 mph. Daimler founded the Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1890 to manufacture his designs. Eleven years later, Wilhelm Maybach designed the Mercedes automobile. If Siegfried Marcus built his second car in 1875 and it was as claimed, it would have been the first vehicle powered by a four-cycle engine and the first to use gasoline as a fuel, the first having a carburetor for a gasoline engine and the first having a magneto ignition. However, the only existing evidence indicates that the vehicle was built circa 1888/89 — too late to be first. By the early 1900s,  gasoline cars  started to outsell all other types of motor vehicles. The market was growing for economical automobiles and the need for industrial production was pressing. The first car manufacturers in the world were French: Panhard Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891). By car manufacturer we mean builders of entire motor vehicles for sale and not just engine inventors who experimented with car design to test their engines —  Daimler  and  Benz  began as the latter before becoming full car manufacturers and made their early money by licensing their patents and selling their engines to car manufacturers. Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor were partners in a woodworking machinery business when they decided to become car manufacturers. They built their first car in 1890 using a Daimler engine. Edouard Sarazin, who held the license rights to the Daimler patent for France, commissioned the team. (Licensing a patent means that you pay a fee and then you have the right to build and use someones invention for profit — in this case, Sarazin had the right to build and sell Daimler engines in France.) The partners not only manufactured cars, but they also made improvements to the automotive body design. Panhard-Levassor made vehicles with a pedal-operated clutch, a chain transmission leading to a change-speed gearbox, and a front radiator. Levassor was the first designer to move the engine to the front of the car and use a rear-wheel-drive layout. This design was known as the Systeme Panhard and quickly became the standard for all cars because it gave a better balance and improved steering. Panhard and Levassor are also credited with the invention of the modern transmission — installed in their 1895 Panhard. Panhard and Levassor also shared the licensing rights to Daimler motors with Armand Peugeot. A Peugeot car went on to win the first car race held in France, which gained Peugeot publicity and boosted car sales. Ironically, the Paris to Marseille race of 1897 resulted in a fatal auto accident, killing Emile Levassor. Early on, French manufacturers did not standardize car models — each car was different from the other. The first standardized car was the 1894 Benz Velo. One hundred and thirty-four identical Velos were manufactured in 1895. Charles and Frank Duryea Americas first gasoline-powered commercial car manufacturers were Charles and Frank Duryea. The brothers were bicycle makers who became interested in gasoline engines and automobiles and built their first motor vehicle in 1893, in Springfield, Massachusetts. By 1896, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company had sold thirteen models of the Duryea, an expensive limousine, which remained in production into the 1920s. Ransome Eli Olds The first automobile to be mass produced in the United States was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built by the American car manufacturer Ransome Eli Olds (1864-1950). Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and started the Detroit area automobile industry. He first began making steam and gasoline engines with his father, Pliny Fisk Olds, in Lansing, Michigan in 1885. Olds designed his first steam-powered car in 1887. In 1899, with a growing experience of gasoline engines, Olds moved to Detroit to start the Olds Motor Works, and produce low-priced cars. He produced 425 Curved Dash Olds in 1901, and was Americas leading auto manufacturer from 1901 to 1904. Henry Ford American car manufacturer, Henry Ford (1863-1947) invented an improved assembly line and installed the first conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory in Fords Highland Park, Michigan plant, around 1913-14. The assembly line reduced production costs for cars by reducing assembly time. Fords famous Model T was assembled in ninety-three minutes. Ford made his first car, called the Quadricycle, in June 1896. However, success came after he formed the Ford Motor Company in 1903. This was the third car manufacturing company formed to produce the cars he designed. He introduced the Model T in 1908 and it was a success. After installing the moving assembly lines in his factory in 1913, Ford became the worlds biggest car manufacturer. By 1927, 15 million Model Ts had been manufactured. Another victory won by Henry Ford was  a patent battle  with George B. Selden. Selden, who had never built an automobile, held a patent on a road engine, on that basis Selden was paid royalties by all American car manufacturers. Ford overturned Seldens patent and opened the American car market for the building of inexpensive cars.

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Modern Labor Economics Theory and Evidence Public Policy

Question: Discuss about the Modern Labor Economics for Theory and Evidence Public Policy. Answer: As there is only one supplier in the market, the market is similar to a monopoly market. This will give the seller the opportunity of being the price maker and earn supernormal profit. Increasing the revenue will require the seller to lose the profit maximizing strategy. For maximizing revenue marginal revenue has to be zero (MR = 0), whereas, the profit maximizing policy suggests the marginal revenue (MR) has to be equal to marginal cost (MC) (Ehrenberg Smith, 2016). The following figure presents the situation. As per the figure above, to increase the revenue will require the seller to lower the price level. As per the law of demand, a decrease in price will increase the demand and sales as well. This will only in turn increase the revenue, which is the objective of the seller (Canto, Joines Laffer, 2014). On the other hand, if he increases the price, it will reduce the demand and the total revenue might fall even if the profit increases, which is not the goal of the seller. The main purpose of the seller is to maximize the revenue. To do so, he has to change his production process from equalling marginal revenue to marginal cost. The new policy that has to be adopted here is producing at a point where the marginal revenue is zero. According to absolute advantage theory when a country is more efficient in producing a good, it has absolute advantage over the other countries (Feenstra, 2015). It does not mean it will increase efficiency in the countrys overall production. Comparative advantage theory has to be adopted here to ensure increased efficiency and losing the opportunity cost which will affect the countries negatively. As per the figure above, the country 1 has absolute advantage over country 2, over the both goods. But this does not mean producing both the goods will help the countrys economy. If the country 1 according to the figure above produces good 1 and the country 2 produces good 2, then trade, it will increase the social welfare and generate more income. This way both countries can improve from trade. It will increase both countries Gross Domestic Product. The comparative advantage theory suggests that in doing so the country will avoid the lesser opportunity cost and increase efficiency (Costinot et al., 2013). The country two will also benefit from this situation. If one among the two counties has absolute advantage over all the goods, it should produce the good which bears less opportunity cost. This will leave other country with the option of producing the other good for which it incurs less opportunity cost as well. This way both the countries can increase efficiency. References: Canto, V. A., Joines, D. H., Laffer, A. B. (2014). Foundations of supply-side economics: Theory and evidence. Academic Press. Costinot, A., Donaldson, D., Vogel, J., Werning, I. (2013). Comparative advantage and optimal trade policy (No. w19689). National Bureau of Economic Research. Ehrenberg, R. G., Smith, R. S. (2016). Modern labor economics: Theory and public policy. Routledge. Feenstra, R. C. (2015). Advanced international trade: theory and evidence. Princeton university press.

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Amazon Ads For Authors Two Case Studies Showing That They Do Work Amazon Ads for Authors: Two Case Studies Showing They Do Work Amazon ads have been the talk of indie author town since Amazon opened its AMS platform to all KDP users in 2016. While Facebook ads become increasingly competitive, as Mark Dawson already predicted on this blog back in 2015, Amazon has made huge improvements to their advertising platform, and are progressively becoming one of the most favored channels for marketing a book.Like any other advertising platform, the AMS platform comes with its own challenges and learning curve. And like any other platform, success largely depends on data analysis and iteration. In this post, we’ll analyze two case studies (one fiction, one nonfiction) and try to understand what these authors are doing right.A brief intro to Amazon AMS adsBefore we get into the case studies, it’s important to have a look at what Amazon ads do. If you’re already familiar with them - or have taken the Reedsy Learning course on Amazon ads for authors, or Dave Chesson's video training - you can skip th is part.When judging any advertising platform, you should think about four crucial things:Placement: where do the ads show up?Targeting: how can I decide whom the ads get shown to?Cost: when am I being charged? What is the minimum I need to invest?Analytics: how do I know if my ads are working or not?PlacementThere are two types of ads you can try on Amazon:Sponsored Product: these ads show up on search result listings and other books’ product pages (below the â€Å"also boughts†).The main thing to note is that his targeting is automatic.â€Å"Here’s my logic: Amazon knows! It’s creepy, but Amazon knows what you’re shopping for, what you’ve been looking at, what your interests are and how best to deliver the right advert at the right time.†For more insights into Joseph’s campaigns, take our free course on Amazon ads! Two of the 10 lessons are written by him and he shares everything about his process. On top of that, Joseph's a freelance book marketer on Reedsy. If you’re a non-fiction author looking to self-publish or to dabble with AMS ads, you can get in touch with him and seek his help.Takeaways for nonfiction authors:Try Sponsored Product ads first;If your book’s metadata is well-optimized, go for automatic targeting;Even if the ACoS isn't the best, consider the number of impressions you're getting and the impact in brand awareness.What's your experience with the AMS ad platform been like?   Share your insights with us below. If you have any questions for Annelie and Joseph, feel free to ask in the comments as well!

Essay on Education in the States †it is Time to Change the Vector

Essay on Education in the States – it is Time to Change the Vector Essay on Education in the States – it is Time to Change the Vector Essay on Education in the States – it is Time to Change the VectorIn the modern society with the rapid development of life and extreme high speed of changes education plays a crucial role because it allows to develop adoptive mechanisms, find your place, find and develop your hidden talents and capacities. So, education should be available for every individual. There are a lot of questions and doubts considering the level of education, its accents and forms, but it is obvious that it should be for all people. To my mind, every person has the right to the same kind of education and various tests and examinations will show whether a particular kind of education passes him/her or not. The next question is who should take responsibility for education. It is not fair to put this responsibility on the individual because it would be not his/her responsibility, but his/her parents’. It depends on their level of income and other factors and at this point the question of inequali ty arises: some rich parents may allow the education for their child and poor representatives deprive their children of it. The most logical answer to this social inequality would be   federal provision. The government should   develop common economic, political and cultural course of the country and implement corresponding educational programs. Students know the professional demand and governmental needs and have a kind of guarantee to be useful and successful after getting a diploma. â€Å"Education is supposed to prepare future citizens- that is, to equip them with the necessary skills, knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives to live a prosperous and happy life as well as to perform responsibilities required of them as citizens of a society† (Zhao, 2009, p.13). However, federal responsibility has negative consequences, as well. The government does not care about creative abilities and imagination much.   It has a declination to standardization: a particular type of wo rker is required and the government gives a requirement for such a worker. In this way person’s hidden talents, his/her creativity and imagination go aside and Ken Robinson, a famous educational expert, in his lecture Changing Education Paradigms speaks about this problem of modern education. Traditional education concentrates on the final product and material effectiveness – the government needs the statistics of high economic development. However, it is time to realize for the United States that further progress and development is not in the quantity and quality of existing products and services, it is in innovations. Innovations, in their turn, may be developed and implemented only by creative individuals and divergent thinking, as Robinson calls it.On the one hand, American government guarantees all its citizens the right for free and equal education, as it was proclaimed in the Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974. In my opinion, it is a positive change in th e provision of education on the federal level. There was created the National Institute of Education to control the educational process in the States and improve the level of education. Moreover, to guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens including people with disabilities The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C.  §Ã‚ § 1400 et seq) was signed and it is also a very important and necessary step in the educational sphere.On the other hand, educational system of the United States requires fundamental reformation, and the faster it will be done, the more visible the results will be. Standardization of education resulted in the development of thousands of tests in every discipline, however, these tests allow to check only factual knowledge, not creative talents. Moreover, even high scores in tests and economic growth of the country do not have direct dependence. â€Å"In the face of such evidence, we can do more than reject the widely held hypothesis that high test scores lead to national success in the future. We can also hypothesize that high test scores are damaging to nations. That the U.S. comes out on top in national success in 74% of the comparisons with higher-scoring nations is statistically significant (p .0001, binomial test)† (Baker, 2007, p. 103). So, standardization of the educational process which used to be so actual in the 20th century does not prove to be effective nowadays.Development of critical thinking and creativity should become the main vector of the educational policy in the states. It presumes more freedom for the individual in the learning process, the teacher becomes more an observer who directs the student to a minimal point and creates appropriate condition for the development of personality and individuality. Despite the fact that it may seem risky, it is worth trying if the focus of attention is the development of personality in the American society. Robinson in his lecture gives a provoking statist ics: 98% of children up to five years old have excellent creative capacity and it minimizes with the flow of time under the influence of the standardized educational system.So, accent on creativity, critical thinking and diversity should become the priority for the educational reform not only on the local level but on the federal level, first of all. American nation, as well as others, has so many talented and unique personalities that they deserve chances for the development of their abilities and it will contribute to the economy and the country in general in the nearest future.

Muslim Americans Research Paper Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1500 words

Muslim Americans - Research Paper Example Example: â€Å"Being Muslim in America† book contains a number of significant historic events about the Muslim Americans. Accordingly the first evidence of such Muslims visiting the United States of America dates back to the period of 1619 to 1800s (Curtis, 2009). Some other authors have recorded Muslim vendors voyaging to America even before 1500. History and development of the American Muslim Community It is believed that approximately 30percentage proportion of the total African individuals who were shipped to America as slaves during 1619 to 1800s period were Muslims. Some of these people joined the main stream economic activities of America after being released from the slavery. Example: in 1819 Yarrow (Mamout) Marmood was the property owner and bank investor in Georgetown (currently a part of Washington). And in 1907 the first Muslim organization in America was founded by the Tatar immigrants from Poland, Russia and Lithuania (pp 56). The first American Islamic associati on was founded in Michigan in 1919. Consequently many immigrants were employed in manufacturing plants. The first American Islamic religious building known as the Mother Mosque was built in 1934 in Iowa (pp 57). Gradual growth and expansion of Muslim America community is explicit in these records. Currently Muslims are believed to form a considerable proportion of the American society. According to the Pew Research Center statistics Muslim population in America amounted 2,595,000 in 2010. This figure attributed to approximately 0.8percentag proportion of the total population in the same year in America. According to the same source the Muslim population in the country will reach 4,150,000 while forming 1.2percentage proportion of the total population by the year 2020. However some sources states that there are above 7 million Muslim individuals living in America currently. American government does not record religious statistics in the population census. Thus a statistical jargon is created. According to the book â€Å"Being Muslim in America† vast majority of the Muslim individuals living in America are of South Asian i.e. Pakistani and Arabian origin respectively. Approximately 34percentage and 26percentage proportion of the total Muslim American population belongs to the above two categories respectively (pp 9). Impacts of expanding the Muslim American population The impact of Muslim community on American socio-economic sphere is drastically increasing despite the said theological or statistical jargons (ZAHEDI, 2011). The growing significance is evident in the contemporary races related socio-economic issues occurring in the country. Muslim culture, believes and even proliferation seems to have impacts on the large society (Bayoumi, 2011). According to book â€Å"Being Muslim in America† book 25 percentage proportion of the Muslim American population belongs to the indigenous American category. Thus it can be inferred that rate of converting to Muslim religion by the individuals who were born in non-Muslim families is high. This trend seems to have hurt some religions’ leaders and political activists. Hatred, despise and discrimination is rapidly growing in contemporary American society towards the Muslim America