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Car Trivia that will leave you awed or with a stitch in your side!

 
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  • The world's first motor-accident was in 1769. The vehicle is still preserved in the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Metiers in Paris.
  • The first successful internal combustion engine was a two-stroke gas driven engine patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir of Belgium in 1860.
  • 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
  • On average there is about 3,000 feet of electrical wiring in every car.
  • On average a human being spends two weeks of their entire lives waiting for traffic lights to change.
  • The longest skid marks on a public road are said to been left by a Jaguar, involved in a motor accident in 1960, near Bedfordshire, UK. The skid marks were 950 feet or 290 meters long.
  • A blind invented cruise control: Ralph Teetor, a prolific (and blind) inventor, invented cruise control. Teetor, blind since the age of five, built his first car, a one-cylinder, by the age of 12. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. His first job post-graduation was to develop technology for steam turbine rotors used in torpedo boat destroyers during World War I.
  • License Plates: On April 25, 1901 the state of New York became the first state to require car license plates by law. The very first license plates were called number plates, which were first issued in 1893 in France by the police.
  • Women and Car inventions: The automobile industry gave women ample opportunity for invention. In 1923, of the total 345 inventions listed under "Transportation" in the Women's Bureau Bulletin No.28, about half were related to automobiles and another 25 were traffic signals and turn indicators. Some of these inventions are the carburetor, the clutch mechanism, the electric engine starter, and the starting mechanism.
  • Windshield wiper: Prior to the manufacture of Henry Ford's Model A, Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for a window cleaning device in November of 1903. Her invention could clean snow, rain, or sleet from a windshield by using a handle inside the car. This device can still be found in auto rickshaws.
  • Insulations for spark plugs: During the 1930s, Helen Blair Bartlett developed new insulations for spark plugs. A geologist by training, her knowledge of petrology and mineralogy was critical in the development of innovative uses of alumina ceramics.
  • Automatic windshield wiper: Another woman inventor named Charlotte Bridgwood invented the first automatic windshield wiper. Charlotte Bridgwood, president of the Bridgwood Manufacturing Company of New York, patented her electric roller-based windshield wiper called the "Storm Windshield Cleaner" in 1917. However, her product was not a commercial success.
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