-
The car remains a sketch on paper and is never actually made. This self-propelled isn’t that the nowadays cars , it is more similar to a cart and does not have a seat.
-
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot builds the first self-propelled road vehicle in France. This vehicle is a tractor for the French army. It has three wheels and moves at about 2.5 miles per hour.
-
German Nikolaus August Otto created the first to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber
-
Austrian Julius Hock builds the first internal combustion engine running on gasoline
-
Nikolaus August Otto builds the four-cycle internal combustion engine. This is use in nowadays cars
-
Karl Benz builds the first true automobile powered by a gasoline engine. It was a carriage and had 3 wheels
-
Henry Ford builds his first automobile in Michigan
-
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach invent the first four-wheeled automobile. Is known as the “Cannstatt-Daimler.”
-
Brothers Edgar Duryea invent the first successful gas-powered car in the United States
-
Ford’s Model T production rockets from 7.5 cars per hour to 146 cars per hour, this was possible thanks to the assembly line.
-
The car radio is introduced.
-
The creation of the seat belt law. It calls for the seatbelt to be a standard requirement in automobiles.
-
The car Global Positioning System, or GPS, is introduced
-
The first Toyota Prius is sold in Japan