Automobile Summary

Automobile The first inventors to build automobiles lived in Europe, but the United States rapidly coopted their inventions to become the world's preeminent car culture. Over the course of the twentie... Read more

Automotive Electronics Automotive engineers were slow to adopt electronics applications because the cost was high compared to the benefits to consumers. Electrical systems were also very limited in th... Read more

Automobile The development of the automobile at the end of the nineteenth century fundamentally changed the structure of society in the developed world and has had wide-ranging effects on the enviro... Read more

A Southern California Edison employee logs test results at the company's electric meter site. (Corbis-Bettmann) Automobile Performance At the beginning of the twentieth century, the automobi... Read more

Millions of people own and drive cars, but many of those people go through their whole lives not knowing anything about how to fix or notice the minor details of their cars. Every now and then they sh... Read more