When Steam Engines Powered Cars : A Brief History

Now largely forgotten, steam was the King of Automotive Design for over a Hundred years. Steam power was not limited to trains, it powered automobiles as well. Pioneering inventors worked out of small workshops to make extortionary vehicles. From the Puffing Devil to the World's Fastest Canoe, this is part of their story.

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[diedertspijkerboer]

Trevithic was an amazing engineer who pioneered many technologies. Sadly, he was too far ahead of his time for many of his inventions to be an economic success. But the fact that he tried so many new things is a sign of his genius and influence as a trailblazer.

[rianbey]

Oh. my Gad! The first trains were trackless!! Mind blown!!!

[GaryNac]

Granted it might be difficult to go anywhere that fast with steam power but if you needed to get anywhere it would still get the job done even if many of them didn't really go much faster then walking speed and at least the good thing about early steam powered vehicles is that since they didn't move that fast you didnt have to worry about those pesky high speed collisions or air bags.

[Archive]

I wonder if it will ever make a comback?

[NautilusMortanian]

Gas power is still ideal according to some. Let's rationalise ideas...

[kyobydoby]

Some people are designing a new steam car right now, and looking for seed capital. It's a long unphill road to getting any new car in production, so we'll see.