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In 1769 first steam powered car capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Jospeh Cugnot
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In 1784, William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth
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The first automobile patent in the United States was granted to Oliver Evans
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In 1801 Richanrd Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle on the roads in Camborne
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A professor at Prague Polytechnic, Josef Bozek built an oil firedsteam car.
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Walter Hancock, builder and operator of London steam buses, in 1838 built a four seat steam phaeton built.
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The hydrogen fuel cell, one of the technologies hailed as a replacement for gasoline as an energy source for cars, was discovered in principle by Christian Frederich Shonbein in 1838
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Passage of the Locomotive Act requires the movement of an automobile to be preceded by a man waving a red flag
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In 1867,Canadian jeweller Henry Seth Taylor deomonstrated his 4-wheel "steam buggy" at the Stanstead Fair in Quebec. The basis of the buggy, which he began building in 1865, was a high wheeled carriage with bracing to support a two cylinder steam engine mounted on the floor.
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What people consider as the first "real" automobile was produced by French Amedee Bollee in 1873, who built self propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers.
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An American George B. Seldon on May 8, 1879. His application included not only the engine, but also its use in a 4 wheeled vehicle.
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On June 4, Henry Ford fimished his first gasoline powered motorcar.
