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Leonardo Da Vinci invents drawings and plans for first automobile
Da Vinci drew pictures for the making of the first automobile. -
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam powered automobile
Steam propulsion invented for French Army, three wheeled. -
Robert Anderson invents first electric automobile
Electric carriage. -
Karl Friedrich Benz invents first electric automobile
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
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
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
GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured -- Selden collected royalties.
