汽车发展史（History of automobile development）.doc

汽车发展史（History of automobile development） In 1885, the German engineer Carle Benz? in Mannheim made a car with 0.85 horsepower gasoline engine of the tricycle, opened the curtain of modern automotive history. In the next more than 100 years, cars, both from the body shape, or from the power source or chassis, electrical equipment, have undergone enormous changes. One of the most distinctive and most direct looking changes in the shape of a car body. Carriage car From late nineteenth Century to early twentieth Century, the world has emerged a group of automobile manufacturing company, in addition to the Daimler and Benz established their own name in the car outside the company, and the Ford Motor Co, the British Rolls-Royce corporation. At that time, the shape of the car basically followed the shape of the carriage, so it was known as no horse carriage. Box car The carriage car is hard to weather the storm. The American Ford Motor Company produced a new type of Ford T in 1915. The compartment of the car was like a big box. It was called a box car. In order to improve the speed, people began to reduce the height of the car and reduce the air resistance. But because of the lower roof height that affects the front view, this method is eventually abandoned and switched to power improvement. As a result, the engine from a single cylinder into a 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder, 8 cylinder, a row of cylinders lined up, the engine hood also grows. A typical example is the shape of the Alfa Romeo brand produced in Italy in 1931. As a high speed vehicle, the box type car was not ideal, because its resistance greatly hindered the speed of the cars progress, so people began to study a new type of car - streamlined. Beetle Car In 1934, American Chrysler produced air flow brand passenger cars, first of all adopting streamlined body shape. In 1936, Ford Motor Co developed Lincoln and wind streamlined passenger cars on the basis of air flow. This car radiator cover is very concise,