A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed and most likely built by Ferdinand Verbies, a Flemish me

A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed and most likely built by Ferdinand Verbies, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It is not known if Verbiest's model was ever built. Nicolas- Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full-scale, self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769? he also created a steam-powered tricycle. He constructed two steam tractors for the French Army, one of which is preserved in the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. His inventions were however handicapped by problems of water supply and maintaining steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle. It was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods. Sentiment against steam-powered road vehicles led to the Locomotive Acts of 1865. In 1807 Nicephore Niepce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called Pyreolophore.
The problem with Trevithick's Puffing Devil was:
1). Its incapability to carry a driver or a passenger
2). With the water supply
3). Its inability to maintain steam pressure
4). Its combustion engine

---

Join Telegram Group

Answer This Question
Name:
Email:
Answer :
Sum of (4+2)
Submit:

Other Questions

1. Find out which part of a sentence has an error.The Nitish Kumar government extended a red carpet welcome (A)/ to JNU student leader and ‘son of the soil’ Kanhaiya Kumar to give (B)/ him unprecedented security (C)/. No error (D)

2. Find out the misspelt word

3. White collar

4. In the following question, two columns are given containing three phrases each, In the first column, the phrases are A, B, and C, and in the second column, the phrases are D, E, and F. A phrase from the first column may or may not connect with a phrase from the second column to make a grammatically

5. Read the passage given below and then answer the questions given below the passage. Some words may be highlighted for your attention. Pay careful attention. ​Like many rich-country governments, Britain’s prides itself on pursuing policies that promote sexual equality. However, it fails to l

6. Read the following information and answer the questions given below: (i)Seven friends P,Q,R,S,T,U and W have gathered at the Mumbai airport Five of them are scheduled to go to five different places Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Bangalore and Calcutta. (ii)Five of them are executives each specialising i

7. A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'. The jury was divided in their opinion about the Presidential rule in the state.

8. Select the word with the correct spelling.

9. What is the synonym of word .Conservation

10. Each sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits remaining for the sentence as a whole.