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Car Timeline
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Three-wheeled carriage
In the 1780s, a Russian inventor, Ivan Kulibin, developed a human-pedalled, three-wheeled carriage with an elementary differential transmission of power from the pedals to the axle -
first internal combustion engine
In 1807 Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called a Pyréolophore -
three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity
November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity -
four-stroke cycle gasoline engine was built
An automobile powered by his own four-stroke cycle gasoline engine was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885
