The Dawn of Automotive Ingenuity The World's First Automobile

Most historians agree that Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France was the constructor of the first true automobile. Cugnot's vehicle was a huge, heavy, ... The pioneering Benz Patent-Motorwagen became the first commercially available automobile in 1888 ... With the freedom and resources to work on his ... Karl Benz is widely recognized as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. In 1871, after graduating from a German technical college and working in ... Henry Ford built his first automobile with friends while working as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. WORLD'S FIRST CAR: PATENT MOTORWAGEN ... Dr James Whalen enjoys building ICM's 1/24 Patent-Motorwagen, depicting Carl Benz's pioneering ... The first American car with a gasoline internal combustion engine supposedly was designed in 1877 by George Baldwin Selden of Rochester, New York, who applied ... The Cugnot 'fardier à vapeur' was designed in 1769 by a French military engineer looking for a new way to haul heavy equipment to the ... At the same time, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach developed the world's first four-wheeled motor car. Although Benz and Daimler initially knew nothing ... The first car was invented by Henry Ford, who built the quadricycle in a shed behind his house in Detroit. It was a horseless carriage, ... Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car, known as the "Motorwagen," in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile.