A vehicle is a structure on/in which people or things are transported.
A vehicle is not alive. A horse can move people and things but it is not a vehicle. A carriage drawn by a horse is.
Some vehicles have no propulsion power. Examples are balloons and gliders.
The earliest land vehicles were probably wooden sledges. Early man then began to use crude log rollers to move heavy objects. The rollers needed to be picked up from the back and put down in front again to keep the load moving.
The earliest sea-vehicles were rafts made from logs lashed together and paddled by hand.
The first self-propelled road vehicle was built by Nicholas-Joseph Cugenot in France in 1769. His fardier à vapeur was a small steam tractor to pull cannon for the army. The following year, Cugenot built a full-size version of his fardier à vapeur.
Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot's fardier à vapeur also had the first car crash, when it slammed into a wall in Paris.
In the early 1900s there were 100,000 horse-drawn public passenger vehicles and cabs in London, 500,000 trade vehicles and 500,000 private carriages. The medical historian Irvine Loudon observes: "The towns of England had to deal with an estimated 10 million tonnes of manure a year, and the traffic was so noisy, straw had to be placed on the roads to muffle the rattle of iron wheels on stone cobbles."
The invention of the motor car bought many advantages over horse-drawn vehicles: it took up less space, did not bolt unpredictably and produced no manure.
Source Daily Telegraph
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A vehicle is not alive. A horse can move people and things but it is not a vehicle. A carriage drawn by a horse is.
Some vehicles have no propulsion power. Examples are balloons and gliders.
The earliest land vehicles were probably wooden sledges. Early man then began to use crude log rollers to move heavy objects. The rollers needed to be picked up from the back and put down in front again to keep the load moving.
The earliest sea-vehicles were rafts made from logs lashed together and paddled by hand.
The first self-propelled road vehicle was built by Nicholas-Joseph Cugenot in France in 1769. His fardier à vapeur was a small steam tractor to pull cannon for the army. The following year, Cugenot built a full-size version of his fardier à vapeur.
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Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot's fardier à vapeur also had the first car crash, when it slammed into a wall in Paris.
In the early 1900s there were 100,000 horse-drawn public passenger vehicles and cabs in London, 500,000 trade vehicles and 500,000 private carriages. The medical historian Irvine Loudon observes: "The towns of England had to deal with an estimated 10 million tonnes of manure a year, and the traffic was so noisy, straw had to be placed on the roads to muffle the rattle of iron wheels on stone cobbles."
The invention of the motor car bought many advantages over horse-drawn vehicles: it took up less space, did not bolt unpredictably and produced no manure.
Source Daily Telegraph
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