Gearbox transmission and clutch
Transmisión con caja de cambios y embrague
- Date
- 1889–1894 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Émile Levassor and René Panhard (Système Panhard, 1891-1894); Louis-René Panhard
- People
- 👤 Émile Levassor1843–1897👤 René Panhard1841–1908
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Layout of front engine, clutch, sliding-gear gearbox and drive to the rear wheels. It fixed the architecture of the automobile for a century.
The first mass-produced automatic transmission (Hydra-Matic, General Motors) arrived in 1939-40.
What it led to
- Cars able to climb slopes and run at different speeds
- Standard car design (front engine, rear-wheel drive)
- Automatic transmission (Hydra-Matic, 1939)
Built on
- Gasoline automobile1886
- Machine-tool gearing