The History of Cars

The First Car

May 2, 1335

what was the first car? A quick history of the Automobile for young people Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built.

Steam powered

May 2, 1678

A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built the steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Empire Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. But Thomas Newcomen did built the steam engine vehicle in 1712, we can guess that this was possably a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery.

steam powered continued

May 3, 1678

Newcomen's