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Ferdinand Verbiest made a model steam carriage in 1678, which moved by using a principle that suggested the modern turbine.
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In the 17th century the great Dutch physicist, Christiaan Huygens built an engine that worked by air pressure developed by exploding a powder charge
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About 1750, the French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrated a carriage propelled by a large clockwork engine
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By the 1760's, the steam engine had developed to the point where motorized land transport became possible.
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steam-powered road vehicles fit the bill, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French military engineer who in 1769 built a steam-powered tricycle for hauling artillery. (cognot’s second model weighed 8,000 pounds and had a tendency to tip forward when it wasn’t hauling heavy artillery behind it)
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In 1770, he built an improved version of his tractor. This tractor was involved in the first automobile accident in history
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In 1771, lacking brakes, the tractor demolished a wall when it ran into it.
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In 1786, William Murdock built a three-wheeled steam driven wagon.
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In America, Maryland granted Oliver Evans a patent for an automobile in 1787.
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Robert Fourness showed a working three-cylinder tractor in 1788.
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British pioneer Richard Trevithick, who built the world’s first locomotive and put it on the road instead of tracks. In 1801, his “Puffing Devil” carried six passengers up and down Fore Street in Camborne. Three days later, operator error caused it to overheat and burn to the ground.
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Oliver Evans built the first self-propelled vehicle in America and it also swam. Evans, a Philadelphian, built his 20-ton Orukter Amphibolos in 1805 as a dredger to excavate the city’s waterfront. The 25 cents he charged onlookers was the only money Evans ever made from steam vehicles. The remarkable invention was sold for scrap.
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In 1805, Evans built the first steam-powered vehicle. His machine was a combination dredge and flatboat that operated on land and water.
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Daimler’s motorized carriage (invented with his collaborator, Wilhelm Maybach) was the world’s first four-wheeled automobile and featured the first high-speech gasoline engine.
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Benz’s three-wheeled vehicle, which he first drove in 1885, was the first to combine an internal combustion engine with an integrated chassis
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Karl Friedrich Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, The two men, who had never met previously, filed their patents on the same day—January 29, 1886—in two different German cities.
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by the 1920s america dominated in the first half of the twentieth century. henery ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard, with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerging as the “Big Three” auto companies by the 1920s
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For a long time Bob drove a BMW Bavaria not because he had a particular fondness for the model, but because for Marley, the letters stood for his band’s name Bob Marley and the Wailers. later explained, it was “not because I need an expensive car,” but simply a classic example of the music icon’s determination to live his life as he saw fit. this car sat in storage for twenty years before being restored by Kounts Kustoms from counting cars in rememberance of B.M paid by his son ziggy
