巴士的历史

Any of a class of large, self-propelled, wheeled vehicles designed to carry passengers, generally on a fixed route can be termed a bus. Developed at the beginning of the 20th century, to provide greater route flexibility, it was the natural outgrowth of the horse-driven coach. In the present moment, buses are defined as vehicles that accommodate more than 10 passengers.
In 1830, Sir Goldworthy Gurney of Great Britain designed a large stagecoach driven by a steam engine that may have been the first motor-driven bus. It was Germany's turn next to design an eight-passenger omnibus, driven by a four-horsepower single-cylinder engine in 1895. Sight seeing companies were the firs to introduce buses in the United States. One type of these open vehicles built by Mack Trucks, Inc., in 1904 had a nominal seating capacity of 15 with a four-cylinder gasoline engine developing 36 horsepower at street speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 kilometres per hour).
Technically, the ea