A Legacy of Innovation The Genesis of the First Four-Wheeled Car

In 1871- Dr. J. W. Carhart, an American, built a working steam car that won a 200-mile race. We know that Benz and Ford have taken major credit ... It is 1889 after the first motorcycle of the world and the motor coach the first four-wheeled motor vehicle, where the actuator and undercarriage form a unit. A four-wheel drive vehicle—often called a 4WD or 4X4 (“four by four”)—is a vehicle in which all four wheels receive power from the engine ... The motor car was developed over many years by a number of talented individuals but Karl Benz of Mannheim in Germany is normally credited as the inventor of ... In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler invented the precursor of what was to be the modern car engine. He first used it in a two-wheeled vehicle and the following year built ... Invention of First Car ... In 1885, Benz built a motorcar whose internal combustion engine was powered by gasoline. A love of bicycling had ... The Benz Motorwagen, built in 1885, was patented on January 29, 1886, by Karl Benz as the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. In 1888, a ... German engineer Karl Benz invented the world's first practical internal-combustion engine automobile. The first automobile suitable for use on existing wagon roads in the United States was a steam-powered vehicle invented in 1871 by Dr. J.W. Carhart, a minister ... Henry Ford and William Durant. Bicycle mechanics J. Frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts, had designed the first successful ...