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1885 BCE
Cars
Exactly who invented the automobile is a matter of opinion. If we had to give credit to one inventor, it would probably be Karl Benz from Germany. Many suggest that he created the first true automobile in 1885/1886. -
1807 BCE
Cars
In 1807 François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen. -
Period: 1771 BCE to 1771 BCE
Very first car
But the first person to take a steam engine and place it on a full-sized vehicle was probably a Frenchman named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, who between 1769 and 1771 built a steam-powered automobile more than thirty years before the railway's first steam locomotive. -
Cars
The first carriage-sized automobile suitable for use on existing wagon roads in the United States was a steam powered vehicle invented in 1871, by Dr. J.W. Carhart, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Racine, Wisconsin. -
Cars
The Ford Motor Company manufactured its first car - the Model A - in 1903. ... and from assembly plants all over the United States came 15,000,000 more.". -
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Car
Stanley Steam Car (1912) White touring car (1909) Boiler in a 1924 Stanley Steamer Serie 740. To the right is the condenser. L'Obéissante - 1875. Cederholm #2, built in 1894 -
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The best car now
(September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). The early history of the automobile can be divided into a number of eras, based on the ... This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made ...