Unraveling the Birth of the Automobile A Historical Journey

Most historians agree that Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France was the constructor of the first true automobile. Cugnot's vehicle was a huge, heavy, ... Drawing of the first automobile (patented by Karl Benz in 1886) and historic advertisement taken from a reprint of the Horseless Age 1789 – American Oliver Evans receives the first US patent for a steam-powered land vehicle. 1801 – In Great Britain, inventor Richard Trevithick builds a steam ... In the first of a monthly column on automotive design, Gautam Sen and Avik Chattopadhyay trace the earliest inventions, from da Vinci's ... 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 ... Karl Friedrich Benz designed and developed the world's first internal combustion engine-powered automobile in 1885. Inventor Karl Benz created the first gas-powered car in 1885, receiving a patent in 1886 for his three-wheeler with a rear-mounted engine. When was the first car made? Get to know the history and inventors behind the first automobiles. The 1880s were the birth decade of the automobile. In 1886, Carl Benz from Mannheim applied for a patent for his three-wheeled motor car. At the same time, ... Some of the terms considered were Horseless Carriage, Vehicle Motor, Automobile, Automobile Carriage, and Moto Cycle. On July 15, the Times-Herald declared ...