Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born in Paris on March 18, 1858 in a family of Bavarian manufacturer. During the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 family was forced to move to London, where, as before in Paris, commercial activity of Diesel Sr. failed.
Since the war began 12 years old Rudolf was sent to his uncle in Augsburg, where he first studied at the Royal School District, and then went to a higher technical school to study mechanical engineering. But to defend his thesis in 1897, Diesel did not manage because …

The active construction of railroads in the U.S. in the thirties of the nineteenth century and the lack of construction workers at the same time led to the creation in 1832-1836 by American Otis the first steam-hoe. The excavator was rotary, had rail chassis, was equipped with a bucket 1.14 cubic meters, steam engine 15 hp, provided the average productivity of 45-50 cubic meters per hour and replaced about 50 workers. Within a few years Otis excavators replaced 180 workers. The original excavators were used mainly in the construction of …

The word “tractor” is derived from the Latin word tractor that means “truck tractor”. Typically, a tractor is used as a mule for self-propelled machines and a variety of devices. The main use of the tractors is in agriculture, where they are widely used in the fields. Also, modifications of tractors are used in road and building works.
The history of tractors has been nearly two centuries. The first prototypes of tractors were steam and appeared in the United Kingdom and in France roughly in the 30-ies of the nineteenth …

Semitrailer-refrigerator – is a semitrailer with isothermal van of sandwich panels and refrigeration equipment for the transport of frozen and perishable products that require the most reliable thermal insulation from the external environment. At an average outdoor temperature of +30 º C semi-refrigerator reduces its inside the body and then supports within the range of +12 ° C to -20 ° C, depending on the degree of tightness of the van, the type of refrigeration unit and the requirements of the consignment. The trailers can play the role of the …

Currently INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER is one of the largest manufacturers of diesel engines of the middle class (Class 7) capacity from 175 to 300 hp. In 1928, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER created trucks with two-speed rear axle and was one of the first manufacturers to offer such a constructive alternative. In addition, in 1928, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER released the prototype of the diesel engine. In 1934, foreign Lorries working angular shape was replaced by a more streamlined and aerodynamic. By 1936 the production of six-wheeled truck Cornbinders was in full swing, it received the …

Most U.S. trucks are “nosed” with long hoods and huge sleeping quarters. It’s simple: the length of trucks in America in general is not limited. There is a limit on the maximum length of the trailer – it is 14.63 am the way, even twenty years ago, an American truck market was divided between hood and not hood machines in the proportion of “50 to 50. But after the 1983 law was adopted to abolish restrictions on the maximum length of trucks, the demand for trucks without hoods began to …

Thanks to its versatility backhoe planners have a wide application in the highway sector – in the construction, reconstruction, repair, and even maintenance of highways on which a significant proportion of their length is roadbed on the mound or in the seizure, including even in flat terrain the height of embankment increases significantly at approaches to bridges and overpasses. If the main embankment height in flat terrain does not exceed 2, 0-2, 5 m and at the time of the construction the plan of slopes can be performed by grader, …

American trucks are widespread all over the world because according to their technical date, they are best suited for exploitation in different conditions. And there is practically nothing that could interfere with normal performance of American trucks – either good service, or bad roads or poor quality fuel.
But how do they differ from other and why we should respect them:
1. Endurance of main technical aggregates of the machine!
The frame: chromic-molybdenum steel profile (lifetime warranty against the cracks across the United States) – the wrinkle free of the …

Each of us sooner or later faces the problem of choose a car. Some persons hoard long and painful, car is offered as a gift to other ones, the third want to get behind the wheel and they buy a car on credit. But regardless of way of buying car we always have the question – what is better to buy based on your financial capabilities.
For the outset it is necessary to determine the amount that the next lucky car’s owner is willing to spend on the acquisition of …

I give advices for those who have just finished driving school and begin to make their first independent steps in the turbulent flow of traffic.
To begin acknowledge yourself a novice; realize that you are not experienced in driving a car. It is desirable to equip your car sticker \ T \” while the other road users will be soft on you.
Learn basic of your car.
Before you leave the city, it is desirable to get used to your car. Even an experienced driver will need the time to …