Robert Anderson (car pioneer)

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Robert Anderson was a Scottish inventor and car pioneer who built the first electric car around the same time as the Dutch and American competitors in the 1830s , after the steam vehicles of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (possibly Ferdinand Verbiest ) but before the cars Combustion engine by Étienne Lenoir (1863) and Carl Benz (1885).

Life

Anderson lived in the 19th century and is considered to be the pioneer of the automobile thanks to his "electric cart" . He built it around 1832 in Aberdeen , Eastern Scotland, long before the first automobile with an internal combustion engine. Other sources state 1839 as the year of origin. In 1835 competing models were built by a Dutch team in Groningen led by Prof. Sibrandus Stratingh and Christopher Becker . The American Thomas Davenport also presented an electric rail vehicle in 1835. According to a broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk, Anderson is said to have shown the electrically powered vehicle at an industrial exhibition in 1835.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Anderson (19th Century Scottish Inventor) , accessed October 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: History of the Automobile, PDF, accessed September 25, 2013 )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gm.ca
  3. ^ T. Hassanzada: Market overview of electric cars (p.31: The beginnings up to 1900) , accessed September 25, 2013
  4. ↑ http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarselectrica.htm
  5. ↑ As stated in the source, it cannot have been a Paris World Exhibition ; such a recognized world exhibition only took place in London from 1851. What is probably meant is an exhibition by the Society for the Promotion of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce , which organized industrial exhibitions as early as 1757. See: history of the world exhibitions
  6. ↑ The Stromer will soon be buzzing again ( memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), BR-Online from April 28, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish auto pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century