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3 days ago · LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard is officially the fastest steam locomotive, reaching 126 mph (203 km/h) on 3 July 1938. LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to officially reach 100 mph (160 km/h), on 30 November 1934. A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of ...
4 days ago · Chung Ju-yung (1915–2001) founded the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company in 1947. Hyundai Motor Company was later established in 1967, and the company's first model, the Cortina, was released in cooperation with Ford Motor Company in 1968. [12] When Hyundai wanted to develop their own car, they hired George Turnbull in February 1974 ...
May 8, 2024 · bus, any of a class of large, self-propelled, wheeled vehicles that are designed to carry passengers, generally on a fixed route. They were developed at the beginning of the 20th century to compete with streetcars by providing greater route flexibility. The bus was a natural outgrowth of the horse-driven coach.
1 day ago · Alexander Graham Bell ( / ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
May 17, 2024 · Gaston Planté (born April 22, 1834, Orthez, France—died May 21, 1889, Paris) was a French physicist who produced the first electric storage battery, or accumulator, in 1859; in improved form, his invention is widely used in automobiles. Planté followed an academic career, beginning in Paris as a lecture assistant in physics at the ...
11 hours ago · The car's highest placing in any race that year was the opening round of the FIA GT Championship at Valencia, where the car entered by Reiter Engineering finished third from a fifth-place start. [30] [31] In 2006, during the opening round of the Super GT championship at Suzuka , a car run by the Japan Lamborghini Owners Club garnered the first ...
4 days ago · BMW became an automobile manufacturer in 1928 when it purchased Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach, which, at the time, built the Austin 7 under licence from Dixi. The first car sold as a BMW was a rebadged BMW Dixi called the BMW 3/15, following BMW's acquisition of the car manufacturer Automobilwerk Eisenach. Throughout the 1930s, BMW expanded its range ...
