Benz

Innovations Of The Automobile

  • First Self Propelled Road Vehicle - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

    First Self Propelled Road Vehicle - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

    No certain date, only 1769.
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    First Electric Car (Carriage) - Robert Anderson

    No Date.
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    Combined Internal Combustion Engine With a Carriage - George Baldwin Selden

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    First True Automobile, Gasoline Powered (Internal Combustion Engine) - Karl Friedrich Benz

    No Date.
  • First Four-Wheeled Car - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach

    First Four-Wheeled Car - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach

  • First Car Headlights Invented - Cadillac

    First Car Headlights Invented - Cadillac

    Late 1880's
  • First Successful Gas Powered Car - Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank Duryea

    First Successful Gas Powered Car - Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank Duryea

  • First Affordable Car, T-Model - Henry Ford

    First Affordable Car, T-Model - Henry Ford

    The 1920's
  • Airbags Invented - John Hetrick

    Airbags Invented - John Hetrick

  • First Car Seatbelts Invented

    First Car Seatbelts Invented

    Late 1950's