NATS 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Internal Combustion Engine, Karl Benz, Rudolf Diesel
19 May 2016
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Nats 1510 lecture 5 the horse and the car. 7 million horses in the us in 1860, over 25 million in 1900. Growth of industry and the mechanization of agriculture. Sickness, great epizootic of 1872, urban transportation, hauling and construction. Trains: noise, sparks from trains starting fires, smoke, collisions, explosions and public resistance. Major urban centres averaged 426 horses per square mile, stables on almost every block. Congestion, noise and filth, 5-12 tons of manure per square mile per day in new york city, over 15,000 horse carcasses per year in city streets. Horses and employment, equipment, food, infrastructure, etc. Integrated and diversified transportation system, trains between cities, horses within. Traffic regulation: parking, speed and right of way, slow traffic, few accident statistics, pedestrian mobility. Horse drawn buses, streetcars, profit, investment capital, monopolies. Suburbanization and the horse drawn streetcar, economic and class based divisions.
