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History of Cars



The first steam powered vehicle could not carry people. Although they had something to help them build a car that could carry people. It took almost another 100 years before an internal combustion engine was in a car. In 1830 the electric car was built. The three-wheeler was produced in 1886 by Karl Benz. The first combustion engine was built by Lenoir. The first self-propelled car was built and designed in 1769 by Nicholas Cugnot.



The model was a three-wheeler. The first successful self-powered vehicle occurred in France in 1769. Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz created motorized vehicles during 1880’s in Germany. There were some accidents involving steam-powered cars, but most of the opposition had occurred of wealthy railroad owners that did not want any competition. In 1885 Karl Benz designed and built a car powered by gasoline.

 Some automobiles, or motor vehicles, owe their existence to many people from different countries. A Frenchman, Etienne Lenoir, created and patented the first gas engine is 1860. Ford did build cars but he also was the first to use conveyor belts.  A Frenchman, Amedee Bollee, built an improved 12-passenger steam car in 1873. A milestone vehicle was built in Germany in 1889 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. It was powered by a 1.5 hp, two-cylinder gasoline engine. It also had a four-speed transmission and traveled at 10 mph.  The first automobile to be produced in quantity was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile .Its use of the modern industrial assembly line, s credited to Henry Ford, who had built his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. Ford began producing his Model T in 1908. The steam powered vehicles were real heavy. The inventor of the first crude electric carriage built was Robert Anderson. In 1895 people started to devote attention to electric vehicles after a electric tricycle was built. The first two stroke engine that was successful was invented in 1876 by Sir Douglad Clerk. In 1889 an improved four-stroke engine was built. A four wheeled car was invented by the duo of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1889.



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