automotive history timeline

  • leonardo da vinci
    1452

    leonardo da vinci

    first applications of the mechanics of the terrestrial nocomocion, first to study, analyze and understand its importance
  • giovanni branca

    giovanni branca

    creates the direct-action turbine to put in motion dibersas machines
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    invented the steam car
  • Nicolás joseph cugnor (steam fradier)

    Nicolás joseph cugnor (steam fradier)

    vehicle that could take 4 people, its duration was 12 minutes. Considered the first car in the world
  • oliver evans

    oliver evans

    American Oliver Evans receives the first US patent for a steam-powered land vehi
  • first steam wagon

    first steam wagon

    In Great Britain, inventor Richard Trevithick builds a steam powered road carriage. It is considered to be the first tramway locomotive. It is designed for use on road, not railroad.
  • Internal combustion engine

    Internal combustion engine

    English engineer and inventor Samuel Brown invents an internal combustion engine. It has separate combustion and working cylinders, and is used to power a vehicle.
  • first electric car

    first electric car

    1832 – Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage in Scotland. It is powered by non-rechargeable primary power cells.
  • Explosion engine

    Explosion engine

    with Belgian Etienne Lenoir, who patented the first explosion engine
  • first enegine of gasoline

    first enegine of gasoline

    Julius Hock, of Vienna, builds the first internal combustion engine running on gasoline
  • first patent

    American inventor George Baldwin files the first U.S. Patent for an automobile. This invention is more similar to a wagon with an internal combustion engine
  • Jeantaud electric vehicle

    Jeantaud electric vehicle

    The current required for its operation twenty one batteries
  • First gasoline engine

    First gasoline engine

    First high-speed gasoline engine, Maybach designed and built the engine
  • Model T

    Model T

    Ford presented the Model T engine to the public.
  • Electric ignition

    Electric ignition

    With this invention, starting the car becomes much easier and safer
  • Ford's Model T production

    Ford's Model T production

    Ford's Model T production rockets from 7.5 cars per hour to 146 cars per hour, thanks to the use of the assembly line.
  • The radio

    The radio

    The car radio is introduced.
  • cars for the people

    Europe began the manufacture of compact models, with low fuel consumption and low speeds. They were cars for the city. They emphasize the German Volkswagen model; the French Deux Cheveaux; As well as the Italian Morris and Fiat
  • cassette

    cassette

    Cassette El tablero de mandos que comenzó a aparecer a finales de la década abrió las puertas a un fenómeno que motivó a muchos a pasear tras el volante hasta tarde: casettes musicales.
  • Air bags

    Air bags

    There is something in common in the history of automobiles. Inventions seldom take hold immediately, and they occur in numerous forms and places, which overlap
  • Navigation systems

    Navigation systems

    It took a law of a president, in 2000, to make it possible for GPS navigation (mostly reliable) to reach the drivers, but the first system actually appeared five years before then
  • Hybrid cars

    Hybrid cars

    Changing the fuel that cars have always used could be one of the steps with the greatest potential in the evolution of the automotive industry

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