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The initial stage in the history of the automobile began with a steam engine. Around 1770, the French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot created a vehicle that took advantage of steam engine technology, with a vertical two-cylinder engine and 50 liters of displacement. -
In 1838, Walter Hancock built a steam-powered four-seater phaeton. It could be considered as the first taxi in history -
Between 1832 and 1839, Robert Anderson invented the first electric vehicle, which was powered by non-rechargeable electric cells -
The first tests with the combustion engine were held in the early nineteenth century. In 1860 the Belgian Etienne Lenoir successfully drove a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, powered by coal gas. Lenoir's car mixed air and fuel and used an electric ignition, in a two-stroke engine -
In 1876 Nikolaus Otto build and patent a four-stroke engine. -
Siegfried Marcus created the first “Marcus Car”, with a gasoline-based internal combustion engine, equipped with a low-voltage ignition system, which he patented in 1883
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Karl Benz designed his first model, called the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in Mannheim in 1885 -
In 1886, an event that is considered the formal beginning of the history of the modern automobile. From 1900 the construction of these cars were already a common fact in France and the United States. The foundations were laid for the start of the automotive industry. -
Gottlieb Daimler and Willhelm Maybach independently designed their own model car in 1889 in Stuttgart -
Spyker builds the first six-cylinder engine and the first four-wheel drive vehicle in the Netherlands. -
In Gaggenau (Germany) the Bergmann factory launches a small vehicle, called Liliput, built by Willy Seck -
Ford created the "T" models, which were produced in large numbers in 1908, thanks to the application of assembly lines, an innovative system that has since been installed in the heart of human industries, the so-called "Fordism". -
The Highland Park factory in Detroit, USA, of the Ford Motor Company opens. -
The firms Argyll, Crossley, Arrol-Johnson and Isotta-Fraschini use four-wheel brakes for the first time. -
SEDAN appears in first car -
The first car with the CHRYSLER name was built on January 5, 1924. Walter P. Chrysler launches a car with his name that includes hydraulic brakes and high compression engine -
The VOLVO brand produces its first car, the p4 1920 model