History of Automobiles

History of Automobiles

The production of the automobile is not the product of a single product, or a single country. It is a combined effort of many persons of different countries for several years, which puts the today's modern automobile on road.



Timeline
S.N.         Year/Time                       Event
1.              1769                Captain Nicolas Cugnot of France built the first actual self-propelled                                                      vehicle  road vehicle. It was a 3 wheeled vehicle(one wheel at the front                                                  and two  at the rear, powered by a steam engine.

2.              1801                 Richard Trevithick built England's first full sized steam vehicle.

3.              1829                 Williams James contributed in the development of steam engines in                                                        America.

4.              1876                 Nicolas Otto built the first practical four-stroke piston cycle internal                                                       combustion engine.

5.              1880                 German and French efforted to develop an internal combustion                                                               engine vehicle, which was used to carry fruits.

6.           1885/86              Gottlieb Daimler ( together with his design partner Wilhelm Maybach)                                                   patented an internal combustion engine.

7.            1885                  Karl Benz of Germany built the world's first practical automobile to be                                                  powered by an internal combustion engine. It was a three wheeler.

8.            1891                   Benz built his  first four wheeled car.

9.            1893                   America's first gasoline powered commercial car was manufactured by                                                  two brothers, Charles Duryea and Frank Duryea.

10.          1908                   Ford started to build cars with the very famous Model T.

11.         2000s                 In this generation different automobiles and automotive parts were                                                         developed and this generation is still running till now.

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