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Who Invented the Car

By JacksonGilbert101

  • The Combustion Engine

    Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) the combustion engine.
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    The Beginning Of Cars

  • The First Car

    Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile.

  • The New Combustion Engine

    Francois Isaac De Rivaz of Switzerland invented the internal combustion engine.

  • The Steam Engine

    English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old steam engine to burn gas to briefly power a vehicle.

  • Electric Spark-Ignition Internal Combustion Engine

    Belgian born engineer, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir invented a spark- ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas, which was patented in 1860.

  • The Four Stroke Engine

    Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four stroke engine

  • The One-Cylinder Engine

    Australian engineer, Siegfried Marcus built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor which is the worlds first gasoline-powered vehicle.

  • A More Efficient Gas Engine

    German engineers, Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto improved Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine.

  • An Unsuccessful Two-Stroke

    George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine, but it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.

  • The Successful Four-Stroke

    Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented the four stroke engine, it was known as the ''Otto cycle''.

  • The First Successful Two-Stroke

    The very first successful two-stroke was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.

  • A Four-Stroke That Ran On Stove Gas

    French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single cylinder four-stroke that ran on stove gas, but it is not certain that he built a car.

  • The First Modern Gas Engine

    Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often known as the prototype of the modern gas engine and built a two wheeled car and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.

  • A Gas Fueled Car

    Karl Benz recieved the first patent for a gas-fueled car.

  • The "V" Engine

    Gattlieb Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders

  • The Four-Cylinder Four-Stroke

    Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder four-stoke engine.