automobiles

By ElishaN
  • first automobile

    first automobile

    The first automobile was created by Carl Benz
  • Henry Ford first automobile

    Henry Ford first automobile

    1896 Ford Quadricycle Runabout, First Car Built by Henry Ford. The Quadricycle was Henry Ford's first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile.
  • Ford Motor company is made

    Ford Motor company is made

    Henry Ford and Alexander Y. Malcomson created the now Ford Motor Company
  • windshield wiper is invented

    windshield wiper is invented

    Alabama native, Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper after a trip to New York.
  • Cadillac makes the engine crank obsolete

    Cadillac makes the engine crank obsolete

    Cadillac introduces the first electric starter on its Touring Edition, created by Charles “Boss” Kettering
  • Henry Ford's Assembly Line

    Henry Ford's Assembly Line

    Henry Ford revolutionized the car producing world
  • Hitler launches the VW Beetle

    Hitler launches the VW Beetle

    Inspired by Model T inventor Henry Ford, Adolf Hitler conceives an affordable “people’s car” for the masses.
  • first seatbelt

    first seatbelt

    Nils Bohlin—an ex-aviation engineer who worked on flight ejection seats—develops a V-shaped, three-point front seat belt for Volvo

  • first hydrogen car

    in 1966 GM released the electro-van
  • first airbag

    first airbag

    Allen K Breed a man from Florida created an electromechanical airbag from a 5$ crash sensor. GM puts it on the Oldsmobile Toronado
  • first gas-hybrid car

    first gas-hybrid car

    Toyota prius is revealed and changed the car game with other companies rushing to make gas-hybrid cars

  • Elon Musk becomes CEO of Tesla

    In 2007, Eberhard resigned as CEO, and by the next year, Tesla announced that he had left the company altogether. Tarpenning also stepped down from Tesla in 2008, and Musk became the company's CEO.