Peering into the Past The Origins of the First Four-Wheeled Car

Henry Ford's short trip in his first vehicle 125 years ago changed our lives forever ... On this date 125 years ago, Henry Ford finished building ... ... vehicle it called the “Dernburg-Wagen.” Billed as the first commercially available four-wheel-drive vehicle, the Dernburg-Wagen also featured ... The first person who invented the steam car was an astronomer, Verbiest. It was 1658 when he used a small ball as a boiler, which was used to power the entire ... It all began on 17 March 1834: on this day Gottlieb Daimler, the pioneer of automobile history, was born in a small half-timbered house in Schorndorf. He would ... The first car, known as the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, was invented by Karl Benz in 1885 and patented in 1886. 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 ... There is some debate as to who built the first motorcycle — Otto or Daimler. The win goes to Daimler for inventing the world's first four-wheeled automobile: a ... In 1885/86, Karl Benz patented the first gasoline powered automobile, featuring a three-wheeled design with a four-cycle engine and a unified chassis. His ... The 1893 Benz Victoria was Karl Benz's first four-wheeled automobile and the first to use a horizontally opposed piston engine. The 1896 Daimler ... The first car was a three-wheeler built by the German engineer Karl Benz in 1885. In the same year another German, Gottlieb Daimler, built the first four- ...