Automobiles

Leonardo Da Vinci invents drawings and plans for first automobile

Jan 31, 1767

Da Vinci drew pictures for the making of the first automobile.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam powered automobile

Jan 31, 1769

Steam propulsion invented for French Army, three wheeled.

Robert Anderson invents first electric automobile

Jan 31, 1839

Electric carriage.

Karl Friedrich Benz invents first electric automobile

Jan 31, 1886

First true automobile. Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach invent first four-wheeled automobile

Jan 31, 1886

GASOLINE / First four wheeled, four-stroke engine- known as the "Cannstatt-Daimler."

Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank invented first gas powered two-stroke motor and automobile

Jan 31, 1893

GASOLINE / First successful gas powered car: 4hp, two-stroke motor. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company. United States

George Baldwin Selden invents first gas powered automobile with an engine

Jan 31, 1895

GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured -- Selden collected royalties.