Pas "c'qu'on a besoin" mais "ce dont on a besoin!" Jamais je ne ferai le clown gratuitement avec mes voitures de collection dans ces rassemblements où les organisateurs, loueurs de salles et d'emplacements et les commissaires priseurs s'en mettent plein les poches en profitant des collectionneurs! Mais c'est ça, chez les collectionneurs, il y en a qui sont même prêts à payer pour se montrer.
When there's a random encounter by government sanctioned assassins in Sherwood forest...don't let your dying words be "If only I had my blackpowder cannon!" It's better to have it, and not need it, instead of need it, and not have it. To stop a bad man with a gun you need a good man with a gun.
Soy de Argentina, tuve un Renault 4 modelo 1969 la compré en el año 1994 y la vendí en el año 1999.Un vehículo muy práctico y rendidor ,la compré con un kilometraje de 16334y la vendí con 34664 kilómetros.Nos llevaba a todos lados.Nunca nos dejó de a pie ,es un auto sencillo tenía el motor Ventoux francés de 845 cm3 con 36 caballos de fuerza . Hasta el día,de hoy la extraño a la Renoleta.
Imagine the old greek master engineer Heron of Alexandria had build this during the antique! Steam powered cars and ships during the antique! Very well this could have happened in an alternative time line...Modern technology today would be so much further...
My opinion on this vehicle: it was *way* ahead of its time, which is exactly why it was doomed to fail. The layout is unstable, of course--not a good feature for an artillery tractor intended for use on the battlefield. But you could excuse that as the result of inexperience and ignorance. If that were the only problem, it could have been solved. The real deal-killer was the engine itself. It was just too new. When the original version of this machine was built in 1770, the Industrial Revolution was still in its early phase. Even *stationary* steam engines had a long way to go; James Watt was only starting on his critical improvements to the technology. The accuracy of manufacturing machine parts left a lot to be desired. Metallurgy was very backward as well, so no one could yet build a safe high-pressure boiler. But such a boiler is a vital part of an efficient steam-powered vehicle. That's why it wasn't until over four decades later, in the 1810s, that one could find early steam locomotives lugging long trains of coal or ore wagons on British mine railroads, and even those didn't become fast and efficient enough for more general operations until around 1830. It wasn't until the 1850s, nearly a century after Cugnot's original idea, that it was fully realized as the steam traction engine. But once it was, such engines were widely used for decades for pulling heavy loads over the ground, until tractors with internal combustion engines finally replaced them.
Cugnot, ingénier de la marine reçu la demande des autorités pour présenter le projet d'un véhicule automoteur, non tiré par des chevaux!!!..., capable de trainer un canon en tous terrains... Cugnot le fit!!!...alors qu'il n'existait ni le vilebrequin, ni la bielle, Il appliqua le cliquet et la crémaillère ainsi que le phénomène naturel de la condensation instantanée de la vapeur.... Bravo et gloire à lui!!... La première fois qu'il circula avec cet engin la police lui appliqua plein d'amendes car il se déplaçait avec un véhicule étrange autant qu'inconnu qui avançait sans être tiré par des chevaux!!!...
