The evolution of the motor cars - Haya

First designs for the car

Apr 7, 1335

In 1335 the first designs for the car was envented.

First succsesful car

Apr 7, 1769

In 1769 Cugnot and Brezin invented the first successful car !

The first self-propelled car was built

Apr 18, 1769

Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French army to haul heavy cannons. Using a steam engine fixed to a three-wheeled cart, Cugnot successfully converted the back-and-forth action of a steam piston into rotary motion. The truck reputedly reached walking speed and carried four tonnes. The army later abandoned his invention.

First horseless carriage

Apr 7, 1801

His ‘road locomotive’ - known as the Puffing Devil – was the first horseless carriage to transport passengers. Innovations like hand brakes, gears, and steering improvements were developed in subsequent decades.

First Coal-gas engine

Apr 18, 1858

Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a two-stroke, internal combustion engine. It was fuelled by coal gas and triggered by an electric spark-ignition. Lenoir later attached an improved engine to a three-wheeled wagon and completed a fifty-mile road trip.

Leino's designs

Apr 7, 1860

Leino's design used two cylinders to compress and burn the gas.

Speed restrictions introduced in UK

Apr 18, 1865

The Locomotive Act restricted the speed of horse-less vehicles to 4mph in open country and 2 mph in towns. The act effectively required three drivers for each vehicle; two to travel in the vehicle and one to walk ahead waving a red flag. For the next 30 years cars couldn’t legally travel above walking speed.

Ransdom old is first mass producer

Apr 7, 1901

Randsom Old gained fame as the first mass producer of gas powered in America.