The First Automobile Its Influence on the Development of Transportation

From the Archive: Carl Benz's first motor carriage was a lousy alternative to a horse in the 1880s, but it helped kickstart the automobile's profound ... Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the sports car by the same name, creates the Lohner-Porsche Mixte -- the world's first hybrid electric car. The vehicle is powered ... Armand Peugeot was always interested in automobile manufacturing and began producing cars in 1882. Thus making Peugeot the oldest car company in the world. Dating couples found a portable place to be alone as the automobile helped to facilitate relaxed sexual attitudes. Americans experienced traffic jams for the ... The early cars and its development sprung first from the fertile mind of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French inventor, who lived from 1725-1804. He built the first ... German mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. Inventor Karl Benz created the first gas-powered car in 1885, receiving a patent in 1886 for his three-wheeler with a rear-mounted engine. The gasoline-powered, internal-combustion automobile revolutionized human life: It brought people together. It made trade and commerce far easier. Most authorities credit Charles E. Duryea and J. Frank Duryea with creating the first successful American gasoline-powered automobile, in 1892– ... In 1769, according to Autoweek, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot did create a lumbering and slow three-wheeled contraption powered by steam that some ...