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1893 - Jentaud Electric Car
The Jeantaud was a French automobile manufactured in Paris from 1893 until 1906. It was the brainchild of Charles Jeantaud, a coachbuilder who built his first electric carriage in 1881. Among the...
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1909 - Bailey Electric Car
The Bailey electrics were known for durability. One was driven through four New England states in the same run as an endurance test. A Bailey was also driven up part of Mt. Washington in New...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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1906 - Krieger
electric vehicleLouis Antoine Krieger (1868-1951), who began making horseless carriages in 1890s Paris, designed his own drive motors with a second set of parallel windings for regenerative braking. These were...
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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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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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1901 - The Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid
Still employed by Lohner, Porsche reached the logical conclusion and in 1901 introduced the "Mixte" vehicle/transmission concept: instead of a massive battery-pack, an internal combustion engine...
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1890 - Ransom's Steam Car
By 1890 Ransom Eli Olds had built two steam powered car. One was sold to a buyer in India, but the ship it was on was lost at sea.
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1951 - Wankel Engine
In 1951, the German engineer Felix Wankel began development of the engine at NSU Motorenwerke AG, where he first conceived his rotary engine in 1954 (DKM 54, Drehkolbenmotor). The so-called KKM 57 ...
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1901 - New York Taxi Cab
Taxi Cab in New York about 1901, a battery electric vehicle (The lady in the picture is Lillie Langtry, actress and Mistress of King Edward VII.) (Photograph reproduced by permission of National...
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1907 - 1939 - Detroit Electric
Ad in 1912Detroit Electric (1907 - 1939) was an automobile brand produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan.
Anderson had previously been known as the Anderson Carriage Company...
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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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