New transportation systems

Abstract

This chapter describes how the new internal combustion engines led to new systems of transportation, such as the automobile industry and the aviation industry. The chapter focuses on the work of Wilhelm Maybach, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz in Germany and Henry Ford in the United States in the development of the automobile. The chapter also discusses how developments in the engineering science of fluid dynamics led to the invention of the airplane. The chapter focuses on the work of Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and the Wright brothers in the United States.