汽車の發達

In the 17th century, Italian Giovanni Branca devised a mechanism to power a mortar using steam. In the 18th century, Englishman Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine, used for pumping water in mines and other places. Fifty years later, Frenchman Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invented a vehicle by mounting a steam engine onto a cart. Another forty years passed, and Englishman Richard Trevithick built a steam locomotive that ran on rails. Then came the steam locomotive built by Englishman George Stephenson. That was 100 years ago. (All illustrated with animation.) Documentary footage of Stephenson’s steam locomotive demonstrated at the British Railway Centenary celebration last year. In October 1872, Japan’s railways began operation. The first locomotive, manufactured in England at that time, is still preserved today. A present-day Japanese steam locomotive manufacturing plant. Footage of electric locomotives, gasoline railcars (diesel cars), and electric trains. Passenger cars were also improved from four-wheeled vehicles to bogie cars (the structure of bogie cars illustrated with animation). Footage of sleeper cars, dining cars, and observation cars. The railway network extending across the nation. The C51 speeding ahead.