Steam car | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car


00:01:23 1 Technology
00:03:39 2 History
00:03:47 2.1 Early history
00:05:21 2.2 1890s commercial manufacture
00:06:36 2.3 Volume production 1900 to 1913
00:08:10 2.4 Decline 1914 to 1939
00:09:01 3 Resurgence - enthusiasts, air pollution, and fuel crises
00:11:10 3.1 Impact of Californian legislation
00:15:32 3.1.1 Indy Cars
00:16:39 3.1.2 Donald Healey
00:17:00 3.1.3 Ted Pritchard Falcon
00:17:22 3.1.4 Saab steam car and Ranotor
00:18:41 3.1.5 Pelland Steamer
00:19:59 3.1.6 Enginion Steamcell
00:20:55 4 Notable manufacturers
00:21:05 4.1 Cederholm brothers
00:21:42 4.2 Locomobile Runabout
00:22:27 4.3 Stanley Steamer
00:23:41 4.4 Doble Steam Car
00:24:38 4.5 Toledo Steam Carriage
00:27:09 4.6 White Steamer
00:27:25 4.7 Endurance steam car
00:28:01 5 Land speed record attempts
00:29:08 5.1 Autocoast Vaporizer
00:29:42 5.2 Barber-Nichols
00:30:24 5.3 British Steam Car Challenge
00:31:40 5.4 Steam Speed America



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A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE) in which the fuel is combusted outside of the engine, unlike an internal combustion engine (ICE) in which fuel is combusted inside the engine. ECEs have a lower thermal efficiency, but carbon monoxide production is more readily regulated.
The first steam-powered vehicle was supposedly built in 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit in China. The vehicle was a toy for the Chinese Emperor. While not intended to carry passengers, and therefore not exactly a "car", Verbiest's device is likely to be the first ever engine-powered vehicle. The first experimental steam-powered cars were built in the late 18th and 19th centuries, not until after Richard Trevithick had developed the use of high-pressure steam around 1800, that mobile steam engines became a practical proposition. By the 1850s it was viable to produce them commercially: steam road vehicles were used for many applications.
Development was hampered by adverse legislation from the 1830s and then the rapid development of internal combustion engine technology in the 1900s, leading to their commercial demise. Relatively few steam-powered vehicles remained in use after the Second World War. Many of these vehicles were acquired by enthusiasts for preservation.
The search for renewable energy sources has led to an occasional resurgence of interest in using steam power for road vehicles.