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The first vehicle to move by itself was the steam tractor, invented in 1769 by the Franchman Nicolas Cugnot.
The steam tractor worked by puping pistons up and down to move the wheels. But the tractor was very heavy and unstable -
This traine is the firts steam train was built in England in 1804 by Rucharrd Trevirhick.
This train travelled at 8kph(kilometer per hour) -
These early hand-built cars were too expensive for ordinary people. But in 1908 Henry Ford started mass-production, 15 million "Model T Ford" cars were sold