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Sylvan Nathan Goldman (November 15, 1898 – November 25, 1984) was an American businessman and inventor of the shopping cart, which had a pair of large wire baskets connected by tubular metal arms with four wheels.
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The French engineer Alphonse Beau de Rochas invented the principle of the 4-step combustion engine.
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Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile. Benz also patented his own throttle system, spark plugs, gear shifters, a water radiator, a carburetor and other fundamentals to the automobile. Benz eventually built a car company that still exists today as the Daimler Group.
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Scottish veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop invented the first air-filled or pneumatic tires in 1888. He attached rubber hoses to wooden wheels and covered the contact patches with thick canvas. He placed these first tires on a tricycle and took a test run
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In a tiny workshop behind his home on 58 Bagley Avenue, Henry Ford put the finishing touches on his gasoline-powered motor car. After more than two years of experimentation, Henry Ford at the age of thirty-two, had completed his first experimental automobile.
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The Ford Model T had already been in production for 12 years when 1920 came around, and it would continue for 7 or so more years. That was followed by a rather long break in production while Ford designed the Model A and got he factories ready to build it.
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Ford Model T Runabout. The first well-known pickup truck can be traced back as far as the factory-produced Ford Model T Runabout with Pickup Body introduced by Henry Ford in 1925. 10 states with most pickup trucks.
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American car manufactureers Nash in 1955 and Ford in 1955 offered seat belt options, while Swedish Saab first introduced seat belts as standard in1958
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At the time, the largest tires the trucks were running were 48 inches (1.2 m) in diameter. In April 1981, Bob Chandler drove over cars in Bigfoot in what is often believed to be the first monster truck to crush cars.
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Suzuki was a leader in the development of four-wheeled ATVs. It sold the first model, the 1982 QuadRunner LT125, which was a recreational machine for beginners. Suzuki sold the first four-wheeled mini ATV, the LT50, from 1984 to 1987.
