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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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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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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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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