What effects did the internal combustion engine have on transportation?

Answer 1

The Internal Combustion Engine was a extreme improvement of the best engine of its time, the steam engine. The internal combustion engine was smaller and far more powerful for its size. Since the discovery of SpindleTop, which produced massive amounts of oil, a source of fuel was freely available for the new engine. Since the extreme amount of oil was found, oil prices dropped, the internal combustion engine became more practical, and cheaper than a steam engine, which used Coal instead of oil, which back then was extremely cheap.

The thing about oil is that oil is also cleaner than coal, and is easier to transport. After Spindle Top Oil Barrels cost about 4 cents, a Barrel contains 31 gallons of oil, which is about 3/5 of the Gas Tank of a Dodge Ram (52 Gallons).

Answer 2

If you mean 'internal' combustion engine then the answer is clear. It replaced two slow and inefficient types of motive power, the horse and the steam engine.

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In Britain the ousting of draught-horses in late 19C/early 20C by the more powerful and dependable steam road vehicles (traction-engines, which were tractors built to tow cargo trailers, and the steam-wagon or lorry) so worried the Members of Parliament and others who had become rich by horse-breeding and its allied commerce, that acts and taxes were passed to try to suppress by bureaucracy, this modern mechanical upstart! In turn the petrol and later diesel engine rapidly made steam power on the roads, obsolete.

Answer 3

With the advent of i c engines transportation became easier,faster, cheaper, more convenient, etc. Now transportation of even bulky goods in less time became possible.

Answer 4

Hmm "international combustion engine" sounds like another name for World War II.