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Military tractor
STEAM / Built the first self propelled road vehicle (military tractor) for the French army: three wheeled, 2.5 mph. -
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Electric carriage
Robert Anderson invented the ELECTRIC / Electric carriage. -
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Cannstatt-Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900) and Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) GASOLINE / First four wheeled, four-stroke engine -
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Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage
George Baldwin Selden (1846-1922)
GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured-Selden collected royalties. -
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Benz Patenet Motor Car
Carl Benz submitted for a patent for his "mobile propelled by a gas engine" on January 29, 1886. The patent - number 37435 – could be considered the automobile's birth certificate. The first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1, was reported in the newspapers in July 1886. -
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1st successful gas powered
Charles Edgar Duryea (1862-1938) and his brother Frank (1870-1967)
GASOLINE / First successful gas powered car: 4hp, two-stroke motor. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company.