When was the automobile invented 1920
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Car
Motorised passenger road vehicle
For the country with the initials "CAR", see Central African Republic. For other uses, see Car (disambiguation).
"Passenger car" and "Automobile" redirect here. For the railroad car that carries passengers, see Passenger railroad car. For the broader classification which includes trucks, see Motor vehicle. For other uses, see Passenger car (disambiguation) and Automobile (disambiguation).
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo.[1][2] There are around one billion cars in use worldwide.
The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Be
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History of the automobile
Crude ideas and designs of automobiles can be traced back to ancient and medieval times.[1][2] In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage.[1][3] In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created by Ferdinand Verbiest;[4] the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769.[5][6] Inventors began to branch out at the start of the 19th century, creating the de Rivaz engine, one of the first internal combustion engines,[7] and an early electric motor.[8]Samuel Brown later tested the first industrially applied internal combustion engine in 1826. Only two of these were made.[9]
Development was hindered in the mid-19th century by a backlash against large vehicles, yet progress continued on some internal combustion engines. The engine evolved as engineers created two- and four-cycle combustion engines and began using gasoline. The first modern car—a practical, marketabl
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The car is a significant part of our everyday lives, but have you ever thought about its complex history?
It can be easy to take for granted the attributes we experience in our cars daily, but there was a point when cars seemingly became more modern and easier to live with as time passed.
In this timeline, we'll have a look at some of the most significant milestones in the history and evolution of the car, some of which you perhaps experience on a daily basis, behind the wheel of your car.
1860 to 1872 - Invention of combustion engines
Before the first car was created, it was 1860 when the internal combustion engine was created by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, while Nicolaus Otto patented the gas engine in 1964, making it commercially successful. George Brayton then went on to invent the first commercially liquid-fuelled engine in 1872.
1886 - Invention of the first car
On January 29th, 1996, Karl (Carl) Benz received his patent for what is considered the world's first car - the Benz Patent Motorwagen. This is the same chap who went on to create Mercedes-Benz.
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