Development of Automobiles

First Steam powered vehicle

Aug 18, 1672

Ferdinand Verbiest built the first steam-powered vehicle around 1672. Quite possibly, the first working steam-powered vehicle

First Self propelled road vehicle

Nov 15, 1789

In 1769, the first self propelled road vehicle was invented by the French engineer and mechanic Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. His vehicle was powered by a steam engine, and was used by the French army to haul artillery.

Internal combustion engine Developed

Sep 2, 1807

The internal combustion engine was developed in 1807 by Francois Isaac de Rivaz, which used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy.

First gas driven engine

Nov 15, 1860

Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir built the first gas driven engine

Lenoir's Second Vehicle

Dec 20, 1862

Two years after the first gas driven car, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir again built an experimental vehicle by his gas-engine.

First Vehicle Using the internal Combustion engine

Nov 15, 1885

One of the first vehicles that used the internal combustion engine was the three-wheeled car built in 1885 by the engineer Karl Benz in Germany.

First Gasoline powered car

Jun 18, 1893

The Duryear brothers, Charles and Frank Duryear, built the first gasoline powered car

first Gasoline powered car is driven

Sep 21, 1893

The Duryear's vehicle was first run on public roads September 21, 1893 in Springfield