Tracing the Automotive Lineage The Genesis of the First Four-Wheeled Car

An electric car had a battery that powered a small electric motor, which turned a drive shaft. A gasoline car ignited fuel that caused a small explosion inside ... 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 ... The first automobile. On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – may be regarded ... Daimler first fitted the engine in a two-wheeler for the first public test-ride on November 10, 1885. This was the world's first-ever motorcycle ... German engineer Karl Benz invented the world's first practical internal-combustion engine automobile. Invention of First Car ... In 1885, Benz built a motorcar whose internal combustion engine was powered by gasoline. A love of bicycling had ... In 1903, brothers Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker presented what came to be regarded as the first four-wheel drive car - the Spyker 60 H.P., a two-seat racer ... In 1886, Karl Benz developed a petrol powered automobile, with a single cylinder two stroke engine which was considered as first practical ... Officially, the first practical modern automobile and the first car put into series production appeared in 1886, by Karl Benz who patented ... It all began around 3500 BCE, when wheels were first fixed to carts, making the first wheeled vehicles in history.