Biology of Business

Automobile

Industrial · Transportation · 1885

TL;DR

Automobile - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Automobile - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Induction coil Four-stroke engine Endless chain drive Vulcanized rubber Crank Tricycle and quadricycle Gasoline as fuel

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Automobile:

Armed car Electric traffic light Automatic transmission Hybrid electric car Masking tape Half-track Snowmobile Fluid catalytic cracking Brake lining Controlled-access highway

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Keystone Species Niche Construction Trophic Cascades Path Dependence Adaptive Radiation

Related Inventions

Vulcanized rubber Automatic transmission Endless chain drive Brake lining Taximeter Masking tape Fluid catalytic cracking Airbag Induction coil Controlled-access highway

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Transportation

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