UMA VISÃO HISTÓRICA: EVOLUÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA DO AUTOMÓVEL

This paper is dedicated to the automobile’s technological history, presenting a reading of scales between America and Europe and opting for a research alternative among others. Henceforth, one can certainly produce a reinforced reading of the phenomena, way beyond a particular observation field, implying that, by modifying the scales of observation, their realities may appear in a different manner. From this confrontation between the continental scales and the proposed research, one shall ponder on how the three technical features had developed historically for the automobile sector: steam, electrical and petrol; how, in a given historical time regime, one of the technical features gets to be determinant; and, considering the technological evolutionist theory of modernity, that always dwelt on the methodologies about the technology of the automobile sector, enable a different reading, parting ways with the exclusiveness of teleology.