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Autos By Paolo Proserpio Chronological story of their development Hc w/bad DJ
Autos The Chronological Story of their Development
Autos The Chronological Story of their Development
Paolo Proserpio and Giorgio Vignati
Hard Cover with damaged dust jacket
Pages are not numbered , Approx 87
Copyright Italy 1972, USA 1973
Contents
Distant Past
Ancestors
In Pursuit of Speed
Automobiles and War
1932-1939
Racing
Technical Progress
Present
Dragsters
Automobile on the Moon
Glossary
The first car was born in the fertile imagination of Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Italian painter of the fifteenth century. He conceived of a cart with two semi-axles which were turned by a horizontal center wheel. He could not find a source of energy to power his invention, however.
The development of the internal combustion engine by Bernardi made Leonardo's vision a reality before the turn of the
nineteenth century.
The automobile as an efficient means of transportation was born in the workshops of men who further refined the gas engines, the Germans Otto, Daimler and Benz.
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