Do you know who is the first driver in China? Who was the first to hit someone by drunk driving? What rules are used to determine the color of traffic lights?
carMore than a hundred years of history have passed since the date of birth. Although some of the knowledge seems to be outdated now, the knowledge of some of it will become a post-dinner conversation.
Traffic lights are in love with unmarried women
We usually think that the color of traffic lights is set according to the sensitivity of human eyes to color. In fact, the main reason is related to women.
In the UK in the 19th century, horse-drawn carriage accidents frequently occurred in front of the Houses of Parliament in London. At that time, municipal engineering urgently needed some signal lights to maintain traffic order.While the mechanics were sharpening their heads and arguing about how to set the signal lights, a mechanic was inspired by the clothes of a woman in York City and designed a red and green gas traffic signal. The woman there was dressed in red to indicate that she was married. , Wearing green clothes means unmarried, and the color of the signal light is changed by a policeman holding a long pole.beltTo convert.
There are different opinions about the invention of the yellow signal light: one theory claims that the inventor of the yellow light is Chinese Hu Ruding, another theory is that the American policeman William Potts invented the first red, yellow and green traffic signal light in four directions. .
Hitler: the father of the Beetle and the highway
Hitler, a historical celebrity, some people call him a "human demon", but how many people know that the detonator of the Second World War will design a very cute model, this model is the Beetle.
After the First World War, all industries in Germany are waiting to be developed, and the automobile industry is a major development center. At that time, Hitler hoped to build a long-lasting, affordable national car, and personally drew many sketches of this model, so the Beetle was born.
Hitler could not only design cute cars, but also built the world’s first highway, but Hitler designed highways more for military considerations, mainly to allow airplanes to take off and land on the highway. A quarter of the highways in use in Germany were built during Hitler's time. Therefore, it is easy to understand why there is no speed limit on German highways now.
The word "car" was uttered by Yuan Shikai casually
The English name of "car" is "Sedan". This word did not start when the first car was born. It was already called this way in the carriage era of European aristocrats, when the carriage was closed. Later, Ford introduced the T-travel. At that time, it had an idea and called its "closed car" "Sedan". Since then, the English name of modern cars has spread.
However, China did not directly transliterate the word "Sedan", but Yuan Shikai came up with it.
On the 67th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Yuan Shikai bought a "Turia" car as a gift to the empress dowager. But Cixi didn't like it, thinking it was just a sedan chair. Yuan Shikai was in a hurry. Such a magical thing aroused not too late interest. He immediately asked the driver to start the car and said, "Queen Dowager, this thing is called a car."
Thanks to Yuan Shikai, what would it look like if it were directly transliterated into "private orders", "live ammunition" or "shit eggs"?
The first person to drink and drive in China is actually an eunuch
After the car entered China, there was no driver in the court, and a eunuch named Sun Fuling quickly learned to drive, and later he often took Cixi to travel.
Once, Cixi was in a good mood and brought Sun Fulin a bowl of rice wine.Later, Sun Fuling came up with Jiujin, and unexpectedly an eunuch popped up in an alley, but Sun Fuling couldn’t find it when she was dizzy.brake, Directly hit the eunuch to death. This traffic accident became my country’s first drunk driving traffic accident.
The car is not a cold machine, it contains many interesting stories. The above knowledge is not new to the people of encyclopedic legends, but it is refreshing to review it occasionally.
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