It shows what a True Genius Nicolas -Joseph Cugnot really was! The tragedy was thar whilst his "Fardier" was a technical Tour de Force due to the intriguing at the court of King Louis XV it became a Political Failure. Thankfully in 1799 when the Paris Arsenal was being cleaned out Lucien Bonaparte realised what the partial dismantled and derelict 'Fardier ' was in Historical terms and he ensured it's protection.
lol to all you people complaining this was revolutionary!! can you imagine what an innovating this was in 1769???? I guess not to many games and cell phone apps have rotted this worlds minds.
gravedigr12 in 1769, people would have been happy with just a horse! Nowadays, we have things like hoverboards and other fancy things like that. Just imagine seeing what we have today in 1769.
Wow, I have seen this in school books. I always thought the boiler was a bulbous battering ram? Incredible to see it work. That up and down motion of the rods pushing the wheel gave me goose bumps and a woody.
yes the legend is false, it really worked! The accident was only due to a mistake, the machine did start and run itself to hit a wall, not that it was so uneasy to drive ( finally so slow at 4km/h, hard to have crash it so slowly)
This is a copy of the orginal "first automobile." The original “fardier” is presently on display at the CNAM - Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris. It is in fairly good condition; some parts were replaced in the 19 th century. It is a museum piece and deserves the best of care. It is impossible to run the “fardier”, even after some fine tuning, the wheels are very fragile. This one is in the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum in Florida.... It is a beautiful work built to the exact scale.
Fascinant !.... Compliments à l'équipe pour cette belle réalisation "qui marche". J'ai aimé le fût à rocher, belle mécanique pour l'époque !... . Compliments personnels à notre ami Alain. Claudibus06
This museum is 15minutes from me & has one of the most remarkable collections of cars unobtainable even in they're native lands. Several Tatras, Voisins, Aero ect. Lovely collection, great people. Tampa Bay Auto Museum, a must.
Look up the history of this machine's inventor. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was the inventor of this machine. While this is a replica of what he himself built this proved his concept worked. This machine was invented just before the fall of King Louis XVI. Unfortunately this was a case of yet again a great inventor getting shafted about as hard as Tesla got it. His pension was removed from him after the french Revolution where he wound up broke and penniless and forced to live in exile in Belgium. Napoleon did acknowledge his contribution to France and welcomed him back in his last days. This actually does give France a Technical first and sadly for France is the shameful treatment of a man who gave them progress in a nation claiming to be progressive. We would not have the modern conveniences of transportation of this day from Railroad to Cars and EVEN SHIPPING AND AIRCRAFT without this proof of concept from so long ago. Damn it, France had a man almost the equal of Tesla's brilliance and look at how he went down... Let it not be said no good deed goes unpunished. We witness this every day anyways.
Lucius1958 You may be right but from what i read it was under construction but things were not all that good during the current political climate. It was King Louie the XVI who lost his head though. So I guess we are both right.
Now I know why the people in the 18'th century have panic fear about those "devilish driving machines"... Impressive machine, perfectly rebuilt, huge respect! Interresting drive train! Does it have a reverse gear? If it has, I'd drive it backwards - it can not be slower and You can see where You're driving... ;)
So obviously the phrase 'I am just going down the corner shop and get a packet of crisps, back in ten minutes' came much later?. :-) What a fearsome machine, in it's time it would have stopped traffic,errr,,,,, people. The sight of it today is still awesome, well done to the builders.
Hahaha. No. The cannon is the point of this vehicle! It is replica of cugnot's "gun carriage." It is claimed to be the first steam powered vehicle, and as usual, the new technology was for the military. You might think a horse and cart would be a more practical way of moving cannon, but horses got scared in battle and could be unpredictable.
Le principe d'un véhicule automobile (donc qui peut se déplacer seul, par ses propres moyens) à vapeur avait déjà été décrit par le belge Ferdinand Verbiest en 1668. Bien entendu il s'agissait plus "d'une attraction" que d'un véhicule utile (voire utilitaire) comme l'est le Fardier.
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...
Как ни странно, но по авторской задумке он действительно должен был ехать вот так. Психология такая у людей была: 1) любая повозка должна тянуться (если не лошадью, то пусть паровой хреновиной) 2) единственный способ управлять повозкой -- это управлять источником тяги: лошадью, волом, собачей упряжкой и пр. Рулевые механизмы, передачи и даже разделение двигателя и движетеля еще только предстаяло изобрести.
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.
scary machine, it is sayd " it rammed into a wall with the full speed of 5 km/h . and they never used it since then. But the concept was proven: "a machine who propellid itself on it's own power". the experiment succeeded but horse and charriots prooved by far better than this.
We can't ask him today but ... what rode Cugnot to put the boiler in the overhang and not inside the wheelbase? Of ONE steered wheel? I wonder why that thing didn't tip over ...
today it would, yes:) Cannon transportation was the original and only purpose of this vehicle when it was build in 1769. The idea was to save resources in manpower and horses in warfare. To transport those heavy cannons you would need many horses and some more for the Lafette of the cannon, plus people and hay and water for the horses. With this Truck the horses would be free for the cavallerie and the men could serve as soldiers. (Edit: sorry i haven't seen your question is 8 years old, i just found the video today)
