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1769 Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot and 1885 Motorwagen by Benz. ​But were they really the first cars? Let's see. We can find the first hint of a car ... Ralph Teetor invented the cruise control device for modern motor vehicles… and he was blind. Ralph Teetor's Childhood & Career. A shop accident at the age of ... 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- ... Credit for the first car often goes to Frenchman Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot who, in 1770, built a steam-powered artillery tractor. In 1896, a young Henry Ford was in a neighbor's coal shed working on his quadricycle or horseless carriage. The simple predecessor to the motor vehicle ... The three-wheeled Motor Car, known as the “Motorwagen” was patented by its inventor, Karl Benz back in 1886. Karl Benz, founder of Mercedes Benz ... It is generally agreed that the 1805 Oruktor Amphibolos – designed and built by Newport-born inventor Oliver Evans – was the first in a long line of heroic and ... When was the Car Invented? ... The first car with a gas engine was made in 1886 by Carl Benz. Cars continued to develop around the world, and in 1908, the first ... This section pays tribute to all those who invented an auto-mobile before the automobile was invented. The first is the Italian genius of the Renaissance, ... 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 ...