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first automobile
The first automobile was created by Carl Benz -
Henry Ford first automobile
1896 Ford Quadricycle Runabout, First Car Built by Henry Ford. The Quadricycle was Henry Ford's first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile. -
Ford Motor company is made
Henry Ford and Alexander Y. Malcomson created the now Ford Motor Company -
windshield wiper is invented
Alabama native, Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper after a trip to New York. -
Cadillac makes the engine crank obsolete
Cadillac introduces the first electric starter on its Touring Edition, created by Charles “Boss” Kettering -
Henry Ford's Assembly Line
Henry Ford revolutionized the car producing world -
Hitler launches the VW Beetle
Inspired by Model T inventor Henry Ford, Adolf Hitler conceives an affordable “people’s car” for the masses. -
first seatbelt
Nils Bohlin—an ex-aviation engineer who worked on flight ejection seats—develops a V-shaped, three-point front seat belt for Volvo -
first hydrogen car
in 1966 GM released the electro-van -
first airbag
Allen K Breed a man from Florida created an electromechanical airbag from a 5$ crash sensor. GM puts it on the Oldsmobile Toronado -
first gas-hybrid car
Toyota prius is revealed and changed the car game with other companies rushing to make gas-hybrid cars -
Elon Musk becomes CEO of Tesla
In 2007, Eberhard resigned as CEO, and by the next year, Tesla announced that he had left the company altogether. Tarpenning also stepped down from Tesla in 2008, and Musk became the company's CEO.