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1886 - Gottlieb Daimler’s First Automobile
March, 8, 1886In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), together with his partner Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929), adapted an early model of the internal combustion engine and patented what is generally recognized as...
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1896 - Henry Ford's First Car
In 1896, Henry Ford built his first car. By the end of the year Ford had sold his first car, which he called a Quadracycle, for $200 and used the money to build another one. With the financial...
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1478 - Da Vinci's Clockwork Car
Da Vinci's car is a vehicle developed from the Renaissance artist/engineer/architect's drawings. The car has a boxy shape and resembles a wagon. It has three wheels. The full-scale model measures 5...
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1885 - Benz Patent Motorwagen
Karl Benz drove his light, tubular framed tricycle around the Neckar valley, only 60 miles from where Daimler lived and worked. They never met.
The Motorwagen was patented on 29 January 1886 as ...
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1769 - 1771 Cugnot Steam Trolley
Old Engraving depicting the 1771 crash of Nicolas Joseph Cugnot's steam-powered car into a stone wall.
The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by...
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1672 - Steam Machine Of Verbiest
The steam 'car' designed by Verbiest in 1672 – from an 18th century print. Around 1672 Ferdinand Verbiest designed – as a toy for the Chinese Emperor – a steam-propelled trolley which was, quite...
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1859 - Lenoir's Gas Engine Car
By 1859, Etienne Lenoir's experimentation with electricity led him to develop the first internal combustion engine, a single-cylinder two-stroke engine which burnt a mixture of coal gas and air...
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1801 - Puffing Devil
A replica of Richard Trevithick's road locomotiveTrevithick built a full-size steam road locomotive in 1801 on a site near the present day Fore Street at Camborne. He named the carriage 'Puffing Devil' and, on Christmas Eve that year, he...
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1335 - Wind Powered Car
Guido Da Vigevano was personal physician of the queen of France, Joan I. For an envisaged crusade, he drew sketches of armoured chariots, wind-propelled carriages and siege engines.
He was also ...
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