automobile age
When cars dominated
The automobile age is the era defined by widespread car ownership and its transformation of society—roughly from the early twentieth century onward.
The term frames history around the car's influence on urban planning, suburban sprawl, and daily life: Cities built before the automobile age have narrower streets and denser neighborhoods.
- carWheeled motor vehicle
- motorEnergy-to-motion converter
- car cultureSocietal focus on driving
- highwayMajor road for travel
- gasolineRefined petroleum vehicle fuel
gas station · chrome · tailfin · drive-in · drive-in movie · back seat · suburb · freeway · horsepower · roadside · cruising · Detroit · muscle car · station wagon · garage · used car lot · asphalt · motorway
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- 20th Century EuropeWorld War I, interwar, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Berlin Wall
- Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge, vice president, vice presidency, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover
automobile agedigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · Stone Age · Bronze Age · Iron Age · machine age
automobile, auto, mobile, automobiles, autos, mobility, mobilize, mobilization, immobile