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First vapor vehicle with a two cylinders motor
It was invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and, in 1770 he made the second model (that model had the first automobilistic accident) and in 1771 the third (it is displayed on the National Museum of the Technich of Paris). -
William Murdoch made a vapor car model
It had hand brake, steering wheel and velocities -
Richard Trevithick drove a car called Puffing Devil Road Locomotive
It had hand brake, steering wheel and velocities -
Josef Božek made a car that use oil
The main difficult of the vapor cars were the heating of the pot, and they wanted to change the vapor to a liquid -
Etienne Lenoir made a car with coal
The car used a motor with an inter combustion propelled by coal -
Siegfried Marcus made a motor that use petrol
and in 1883 he patented and low voltage ignition system -
Georg Baldwin Selden present the way to make petrol car in US
but they didn't make the cars until 1899, and a lot of entrepreuners asociated with him -
Bertha Benz did the first long journey
She travelled 106 km from Mannheim to Pforzheim in her husband (Karl Benz) car model. -
Camille Jenatzy presented his model
his model reached 105 km/h -
Fiat is founded
This company would become the main Italian automobile factory -
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost model appears
It had a totally unprecedented operating silence. We can consider Royce and Rolls the progenitors of the luxury automotive industry -
Ford produce his first cars
Henry Ford began producing his first cars in big amounts on an assembly line -
The Ford T goes on the market
The car was the same for 20 years -
The injection of fuel appears
It allows to optimize the specific consumption of gasoline engines
