NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Internal Combustion Engine, Rudolf Diesel, Karl Benz
15 May 2017
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Nats 1510 lecture 16 the car. The automobile is pervasive & integrated in north america. Integrated: many social activities pursued in cars. Restrictions on use: licensing and cost of operation. Cars are intertwined with pop culture, north american values; individual freedom, economic prosperity, sign of adulthood. Motor vehicle, urbanization and suburbanization, personal mobility, distribution of goods. Environmentalism in the modern world, mass production, individual action. Individual car pollution, millions of cars, aggregation of damage. Exhaust as an environmental and health problem. A technological fix design change (hybrid, electric), social fix using technology differently (carpooling, transit) Technological fixes, technical difficultly, social fixes, habit. Electric, gas & steam cars, turn of century. 1898 a new york sun article stated that, At that busy corner, grand street and the bowery, there may be seen cars propelled by five different methods of propulsion by steam, by cable, by underground trolley, by storage battery and by horses.
