Invention of Cars

By mireyadaniels
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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.