The First Car A Legacy of Ingenuity and Transformation

These early trials of electric cars ran by non-rechargeable primary batteries. The Lead-acid battery, the first rechargeable secondary battery, was invented by ... The Benz Patent-Motorwagen built in 1886, is widely regarded as the world's first automobile; that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by an internal ... 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 ... Siegfried Marcus finished his first car some 15 years before the better-remembered efforts of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. Most inventors ... Benz had previously built the world's first stationary petrol engine back in 1879, but creating a car in which the chassis and engine formed a ... Model. The light high-speed petrol motor, invented by Gottlieb Daimler in 1889, was first commercially applied to the motor car by the Frenchmen,... The first car ever made is credited to Karl Benz, a German engineer and inventor. In 1886, Benz developed the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, widely regarded as the ... From the first car they built in 1902, Cadillac led the way in automobile innovation. Henry Leland, Cadillac's first General Manager, insisted ... Laramie inventor and bicycle-shop owner Elmer Lovejoy in an undated photo of what may be his first automobile, which he built in 1898. Note the ... Pictured is the first gasoline-powered automobile invented in the United States. Known as the Buckeye gasoline buggy or Lambert gasoline buggy, ...