Cars of Legend

Download or read book Cars of Legend written by Jorge Lucendo and published by Jorge Lucendo. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the automobile date back to the seventeenth century, specifically to the year 1678, in that year the French Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest created the first rolling machine, as it was called in his time. Later in 1769 a French engineer named Cugnot created what for many is the beginning of the history of the automobile, although previously in the fifteenth century, and according to some historians there was a German watchmaker, who invented a wooden car that moved like a device of watchmaking of the time. Also some historians afrirman that the inventor and man of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, had created the first car-mobile of history. In this book Autos de Leyenda, we will review the history of the automobile, from its beginning until the mid-nineteenth century, (1769-1897), we will see the progression of the car through the ages, locomotives land, locomobiles, steam cars, electric vehicles , with wheels of wood, iron, rubber and all the technical advances that were emerging in each era. This book talks about the top 120 brands in history, with stories, events and anecdotes from its manufacturers and creators.