The Keystone of Transportation The First Automobile's Enduring Legacy

In 1893, Charles Duryea and J. Frank, who were bicycle mechanics at the time, designed the first successful American gasoline automobile. Henry Ford starts making the Ford Model T, nicknamed Tin Lizzie. This model, the first truly mass-produced car, becomes accessible to the general population and ... 1769 Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot and 1885 Motorwagen by Benz. ​But were they really the first cars? Let's see. We can find the first hint of a car ... The modern automobile, developed in the late 1800s, is based on the internal combustion engine, invented by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens ... It had been built in a machine shop on West Fifth Street by shop owner S.D. Sturgis for engineer J. Philip Erie. Erie had conceived the idea of the vehicle some ... George Brayton then went on to invent the first commercially liquid-fuelled engine in 1872. 1886 - Invention of the first car. Benz ... In the first of a monthly column on automotive design, Gautam Sen and Avik Chattopadhyay trace the earliest inventions, from da Vinci's ... German mechanical engineer Karl Friedrich Benz invented and built a three-wheel “motorwagen,” today recognized as the world's first car. The first U.S. gas-powered automobile was built in 1893, some 130 years ago, by the Illinois-born Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, ... But most sources point to Karl Benz as the inventor of the first practical automobile back in 1885/1886. Powered by an internal-combustion ...