Between this early date and the early twentieth century when the automobile was manufactured in several countries, there were two key moments in its history: the battle between the steam carriage and the railway in the 1830s and 1840s in Great Britain, and the battle between the steam automobile and the petroleum automobile in the 1880s and 1890s in France and Germany. [...] For example, if the price of labor rose relative to the price of capital and consequently the workers began to receive a larger share of the national revenue than the capitalists, the capitalists would introduce a labor-saving innovation to the production process. [...] IX I further explore the connections between financial interest groups and the choice of technique, setting the stage for the later development of the petroleum automobile by reviewing the relative power and problems of different groups of financiers and merchants in Belgium, France, and England, the major economies competing for position in the Western European economy in the middle of the centur [...] Trevithick tried to bring the waste steam from his locomotive into contact with the ascending hot air from the fire in the funnel, but the steam disappeared only when the temperature of the air in the flue was sufficiently high. [...] The importance of this action, aside from the tremendous velocity of air shooting from the chimney, was the drawing of the waste 3 steam and the atmospheric air over the fire—thus annihilating noise and evaporating the steam at once.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 7
- Tables 8
- Preface 9
- Introduction 10
- 1 The Existence of the Steam Carriage 14
- The Road to Bath 19
- Technical Feasibility and Comparative costs of Stagecoach to Steam Carriage 25
- 2 The Company Itself 31
- 3 Chronology of Failure 37
- 4 Was There a Market? 44
- 5 Was Gurney Beaten by His Competitors? 50
- 6 Opposition of the Railroad Interests 56
- 7 Cost Comparison Between the Railroad and Steam Carriage 67
- 8 The Decisive Importance of Restrictive Tolls 74
- 9 The Interest Group Basis of Restrictive Legislation 82
- Rationale for Preference for the Railroad 95
- 10 Financing the European Railways 98
- 11 The Repression of the Steam Carriage on the Continent and the Development of the Petroleum Automobile 109
- 12 The Breaking of English Capital 119
- 13 The Petroleum Connection 122
- 14 Profitability of the Automobile Relative to the Railway and Canals in France 131
- 15 Technological Determinism as a Mode of Development 135
- 16 The Promotion of Petrol over Steam 139
- 17 The Diffusion of the Petroleum Automobile 145
- 18 Rationale 155
- Notes 164
- Selected Bibliography 176
- INDEX 183
- A 183
- B 183
- C 184
- D 185
- E 186
- F 186
- G 186
- H 187
- I 187
- J 187
- K 187
- L 188
- M 188
- N 189
- O 189
- P 189
- Q 190
- R 190
- S 191
- T 192
- U 193
- V 193
- W 193
- Z 193
