The Cugnot - The World's First Self-Propelled Vehicle
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2022
- There is a lot of debate about when the first automobile was created and who invented it. One of the strongest contenders is a self-propelled steam-powered vehicle created by French Army Captain Nichols Cugnot in 1770. He built what he called the “Fardier Vapeur” or Steam Carriage to carry heavy artillery pieces on the battlefield. Cugnot’s invention worked but not well enough to survive the tumultuous times before the French Revolution. It ended up in a museum and he went into exile. The Cugnot looks like a combination between a whisky still and a barbecue pit on wheels but it was a stunning breakthrough in automotive technology. Businessman and vintage car collector Alain Cerf moved from his native France to Pinellas Park, Florida where he grew his business and his collection. In 2006, it became the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. In 2010, Cerf decided his collection needed a full-scale working replica of the vehicle Cugnot invented. It has pride of place in the museum’s fleet of eighty cars. The museum is open to the public. It is located at 3301 Gateway Centere Blvd. in Pinellas Park which is between St. Petersburg and Clearwater on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Visit the museum’ web site at www.tbauto.org/ for more information.
I'm glad that I found this video! I was just commenting under another video about Cugnot and his invention of the Fardier in 1769 (the original, now lost to history) and 1770 (the larger version involved in the world's first reckless driving/automobile collision incident, now on display at Paris' Musée des Arts et Métiers today). And I myself first learned about Nicholas Cugnot in my copy of Paradox Press' 'The Big Book of Losers' (1997), which commemorates him but - as its title suggests - doesn't exactly _honor or exalt_ him for his invention. 🤔
Poor guy. He might have had more time to improve on his invention and make it fit for its intended role on the battlefields if not for France's downward spiral into the French Revolution being partly responsible for his funding being cut. In that regard, he was simply a victim of bad timing.
How does the inventor of the very first automobile, forget to install 'brakes' (LOL)? Was there a "Recall"? HA HA HA
Who needs a brake in that speed?
@@viktoryleone6098 Considering that Cugnot himself drove the Fardier through a brick wall on its first test drive, apparently _he_ did! 😆
Imagine being the inventor of the world's first automobile _and_ the first person to ever be fined and jailed for reckless driving! Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was quite the overachiever, eh?