2021HernandezCabreraMiguelHistoryAssignmentTechnologyTimeline

By Miguel0123

  • The first automobile

    The first automobile
    The automobile was first invented and perfected in Germany and France in the late 1800s.

  • First American gasoline automobile

    First American gasoline automobile
    Bicycle mechanics J. Frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts, had designed the first successful American gasoline automobile in 1893, then won the first American car race in 1895, and went on to make the first sale of an American-made gasoline car the next year.

  • The explosion of the sector

    Thirty American manufacturers produced 2,500 motor vehicles in 1899, and some 485 companies entered the business in the next decade. In 1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T and William Durant founded General Motors.

  • First modern motocar

    First modern motocar
    The 1901 Mercedes, designed by Wilhelm Maybach for Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, deserves credit for being the first modern motorcar in all essentials.

  • Active automobiles evolution

    The number of active automobile manufacturers dropped from 253 in 1908 to only 44 in 1929, with about 80 percent of the industry’s output accounted for by Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, formed from Maxwell in 1925 by Walter P. Chrysler.

  • The "Big Three"

    The "Big Three"
    Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerged as the “Big Three” auto companies by the 1920s.

  • "Classic cars"

    "Classic cars"
    Classic or collector’s cars that were first in circulation in France before 1960.