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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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