1765 - James Watt's Steam Engine
in 1776, the first engines were installed and working in commercial enterprises. These first engines were used for pumps and produced only reciprocating motion to move the pump rods at the bottom...
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1903 - Studebaker
This is a picture of Thomas Edison driving a 1903 Studebaker Electric Runabout. That car, created more than 100 years ago in South Bend, traveled 40 miles on a single charge — the same distance...
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1888 - Second Marcus Car
Marcus was the holder of 131 patents in 16 countries. He never applied for a patent for the motorcar and, of course, he never held one. In addition, he never claimed having invented the motorcar....
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1830 - Detroit Electric Car
Robert AndersonCarriage Built in 1830s Uses Non-Rechargeable Batteries
Robert Anderson built a crude electric carriage in the 1830s using non-rechargeable batteries. It eventually became the rechargeable...
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1896 - Ransom E. Olds's First Petrol Powered Car
In this engraving Ransom Eli Olds is at the tiller of his first petrol powered car. Riding beside him is Frank G. Clark, who built the body and in the back are their wives. This car was running by ...
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1896 - Riker Electric Tricycle
In 1884 Andrew L. Riker dropped out of school and started experimenting with electric motors and a Coventry bicycle. The result was a two-passenger trike that had a 25 mile range using a series of ...
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1885 - Gottllieb Daimler - First Motorcycle
You might ask yourself what a motorcycle is doing in this history of automobiles. Well, this motorcycle had an important role and since it had 4 wheels there, we can call it sort of car also :))
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1804 - The Oruktor Amphibolos
The Oruktor Amphibolos
Oliver Evans' most famous device was the Oruktor Amphibolos, or "Amphibious Digger", built on commission from the city of Philadelphia who asked Evans to turn his talent...
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1878 - La Mancelle
By Amédée-Ernest Bollée (1844-1917)La Mancelle
In 1878, Amédée père designed the Mancelle, which is regarded as the first automobile to be put into series production, 50 being manufactured in all. It possessed such (for the...
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1897 - Bersey Electric Cab
The first horseless cab, the Bersey electric powered vehicle, appeared in 1897, was the first type of self-propelled cab licensed for hire in London. In total some seventy of these cabs were built....
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1784 - William Murdoch's Steam Carriage
An important invention for which William Murdoch's name is little known is Britain's first working model of a steam carriage, or road locomotive, in 1784. French engineer Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot had ...
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1870 - First Siegfried Marcus Car
Siegfried Marcus, of Mecklenburg, built a can in 1868 and showed one at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. His later car was called the Strassenwagen had about 3/4 horse power at 500 rpm. It ran on...
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1895 - Lutzmann
J. A. Koosen and H. Lawson in a 1895 Lutzmann. This is typical of American design in the mid 1890's. It was truly a horseless carriage. Tiller steering, engine under the floorboards, very high...
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