Automotive Pioneer The Inventor Who Changed the Course of History

Jean Lenoir of France patented automobiles based on internal combustion engine. Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz developed the first gasoline powered automobile ... Shortly before midnight on a March evening in 1896, just a few months shy of his thirty-third birthday, Henry Ford witnessed another inventor driving a gas- ... The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, co-founded by Charles and Frank Duryea in 1896, was the first American company to mass-produce, market, and sell gasoline- ... The German inventor of Mercedes-Benz fame, filed a patent for a “vehicle powered by a gas engine” on Jan. 29, 1886. His creation was, in fact, the world's first ... Aaron Selter Jr invented a car that runs off water only and was in ... first grader, okay. I knew how to fix a computer too! I'd refresh ... Designed by Hans Trippel, the amphibious vehicle was manufactured by the Quandt Group at Lübeck and at Berlin-Borsigwalde, with a total of 3,878 manufactured ... In 1835, Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from Brandon, Vermont, built a small-scale electric car. Davenport was also the inventor of the first of the first ... Daimler is considered the first inventor to have invented a practical internal-combustion engine. In 1889, Daimler invented a V-slanted two ... The exact date when Marcus finished his first attempt at a motor vehicle is unknown, but scholars estimate it was somewhere between 1864 and ... French inventor and politician Francois Isaac de Rivaz built the first vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine in 1808, and the first ...