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Ferdinand Verbiest, , built the first steam-powered vehicle
Ferdinand Verbiest, , built the first steam-powered vehicle around 1672 as a toy for the Chinese Emperor. It was of small enough scale that it could not carry a driver but it was, quite possibly the first working steam-powered vehicle -
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history of cars
history of cars from 1769-2014 -
experimental steam-driven artillery tractor
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrated his fardier à vapeur ("steam dray"), an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor, in 1770 and 1771. As Cugnot's design proved to be impractical, his invention was not develop -
Steam-powered self-propelled vehicles
Steam-powered self-propelled vehicles large enough to transport people and cargo were first devised in the late 18th century -
orking model of a steam carriage in Redruth,
The centre of innovation shifted to Great Britain. By 1784, William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, -
first automobile patent
The first automobile patent in the United States was granted to Oliver Evans in 1789. -
Richard Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle
in 1801 Richard Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle on the roads in Camborne.[4] Such vehicles were in vogue for a time, and over the next decades such innovations as hand brakes, multi-speed transmissions, and better steering developed. -
built an oil-fired steam car.
Among other efforts, in 1815, a professor at Prague Polytechnic, Josef Bozek, built an oil-fired steam car.Walter Hancock, builder and operator of London steam buses, in 1838 built a four-seat steam phaeton. -
Locomotive Act
Some were commercially successful in providing mass transit, until a backlash against these large speedy vehicles resulted in the passage of the Locomotive Act (1865), which required self-propelled vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. -
4-wheeled "steam buggy"
n 1867, Canadian jeweller Henry Seth Taylor demonstrated his 4-wheeled "steam buggy" at the Stanstead Fair in Stanstead, Quebec, and again the following year.[6] The basis of the buggy, which he began building in 1865, was a high-wheeled carriage with bracing to support a two-cylinder steam engine mounted on the floor.[7] -
"first real car"
What some people define as the first "real" automobile was produced by French Amédée Bollée in 1873, who built self-propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers. -
klilled auto development
This effectively killed road auto development in the UK for most of the rest of the 19th century; inventors and engineers shifted their efforts to improvements in railway locomotives.
