Paragraph on “The Automobile” complete paragraph for Class 9, Class 10, Class 11 and Class 12

The Automobile

Unlike other inventions, the credit of inventing the automobile cannot be given to one single person. This necessity of our life was developed with the consolidated efforts of many scientists and engineers over the years.

Today a new car is being made almost every second and we take it as a part of our lives, yet in the 1880s people laughed at these contraptions and called them `horseless carriages’ in the 1880s. For all practical purposes in 1769 a Frenchman called Nicolas Cugnot made a horseless carriage, run by a steam engine, for pulling canons up hill. The carriage travelled at a speed of 5 kmph and it had to stop every few minutes to build up steam. In the year 1885 the first petrol engine produced by Karl Benz was fitted on the rear of a three wheeled bicycle thus producing the first petrol engine powered automobile. Many more followed this development till the first commercial car production line was set-up in America by Henry Ford in 1908 to produce the famous ‘Ford Model T’, which was also the first cheap car which coukl be afforded by people. The earlier cars were bulky and crudely shaped compared to the windswept bodies of the cars available today and they were not capable of the speeds either.