Unveiling the Vision The First Automobile's Intended Use

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– ... The first practical modern automobile and the first car put into series production appeared in 1886, by Karl Benz who patented the first gasoline-powered car. Karl Benz's Patent Motorwagen is regarded as the first practical self-propelled vehicle. It was powered by a petroleum-fueled four-stroke ... Despite anything Ford might have to say on the subject, it was Oldsmobile that was the first to offer a mass-produced car, with 425 Runabouts ... Discover how Henry Ford invented the first automobile assembly line and revolutionized American manufacturing in this clip from American Experience. 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 ... In the late 1800's Karl Benz created a machine that would go on to change the world forever. This creation was of course the Benz Patent ... In 1885, German mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion ... German engineer Carl Benz was the first to design a car around the internal combustion engine rather than adding an engine to an existing wagon or carriage.