History of the car

By Alan Lee

  • First Vehicle

    First Vehicle
    A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678.

  • Who Made The Automobile

    Nobody knows who really came up with the original idea for the automobile. The automobile of today was not invented in a single day by a single inventor. The history of the car does not say who came up with the idea. It is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern car. However, history can point to the many firsts that occurred along the way. Starting with the first theoretical plans for a motor vehicle that had been drawn up by both Leonardo da Vinci.

  • The First Car

    The first real gas powered car was made by Alphonse Bear de Rochas. It was he who figured out how to compress gas into the same cylinder as it was to burn.

  • first motorcycle

    first motorcycle
    Gottllieb Daimler was one of the first people to build a motorcyle. He used a hot tub ignition to start it. It was run on the roads on November 10, 1885

  • First Gas Powered Car

    First Gas Powered Car
    The first gasoline powered car was made by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers and was first driven on the road on September 1893.

  • First Sports Car

    First Sports Car
    The first real sports car was the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost which was made in 1906 and was made until 1925.