The History of the Automobile

By Quentin11d7

  • Steam Powered Car

    The first Steam powered automobile was invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot at the Paris Arsenal.
  • Rivaz Engine

    Rivaz Engine

    Francois Isaac De Rivaz designed the first car powered by the Rivaz engine an internal combustion engine that was fueled by hydrogen.
  • First effective gas engine

    First effective gas engine

    Nikolaus August Otto invented an effective gas engine.

  • First Practical Automobile

    Karl Benz built the world’s first practical automobile powered by an internal combustion engine

  • First four wheeled Automobile

    Gottlieb Daimler took a stagecoach and adapted it to hold an engine thereby designing the world’s first four wheeled automobiles
  • First Pneumatic tire

    First Pneumatic tire

    John Boyd Dunlop invented the first pneumatic or rubber tire.
  • First Diesel engine

    First Diesel engine

    Rudolf Diesel invented the first diesel engine

  • First Gasoline Powered Car

    John W Lambert created Americas first gasoline powered car.

  • First Gasoline Powered Car Manufacturers

    America's first gasoline-powered commercial car manufacturers were two brothers, Charles Duryea, and Frank Duryea. On September 20, 1893, their first automobile was constructed and successfully tested on the public streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was the first to mass produce by improving the assembly line to manufacture automobiles (the model T). He invented a transmission mechanism popularized in gas powered automobiles.