Car timeline

the car

By brandymarie

  • internal combustion engine

    internal combustion engine
    Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder.

  • the invention of the first car

    the invention of the first car
    Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile

  • the first internal combustion powered automobile

    the first internal combustion powered automobile
    Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.

  • steam engine to burn gas,

    steam engine to burn gas,
    English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.

  • the first safe and practical oil engine.

    the first safe and practical oil engine.
    George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.

  • Otto cycle

    Otto cycle
    Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the "Otto cycle".

  • single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas

    single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas
    French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car, however, Delamare-Debouteville's designs were very advanced for the time - ahead of both Daimler and Benz in some ways at least on paper.