Car Challenge

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Products that are constantly evolving

Research

• When was the first car invented?
• Who designed the first car?
• What did it look like?
• What were they powered by?
• How much did is cost?
• When was the first gasoline powered car invented?
• What is the Model T?
• Compare cars today to early cars.

Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels.

The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769.

Running by February, 1893 and ready for road trials by September, 1893 the car built by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, was the first gasoline powered car in America. The first run on public roads was made on September 21, 1893 in Springfield, MA.

Henry Ford had an engine running by 1893 but it was 1896 before he built his first car. By the end of the year Ford had sold his first car, which he called a Quadracycle, for $200 and used the money to build another one.

The first automobile to be produced in quantity was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, which was built in the United States by Ransom E. Olds. Modern automobile mass production, and its use of the modern industrial assembly line, is credited to Henry Ford of Detroit, Michigan, who had built his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. Ford began producing his Model T in 1908, and by 1927, when it was discontinued, over 18 million had rolled off the assembly line.

Task

Constraints:
1. Your car must have at least 3 wheels
2. You may bring materials from home.
3. You must have a place for passengers
5. Your car can be of any design-but it MUST ONLY roll-no self propel
6. You may decorate and name your car.
7. No man made wheels may be brought in, No Legos etc.

Your design

Share ideas

Collaborate

List of Materials

Redesign

You will also be creating a brief presentation of your car and design process.

Your presentation:

• Describe one problem and how you solved it
• Graph of data from class. Compare your car's data to everyone else and explain.
• Was your car successful? Why or why not? What the the most difficult part?
• Did your redesign help/hinder?Evidence