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The automobile began with steam-powered vehicles in the late 1700s. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is considered to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle in 1769. In the early 1800s, François Isaac de Rivaz designed an early internal combustion engine powered by hydrogen. Nikolaus Otto patented the first practical internal combustion engine in 1876. Karl Benz patented the first gasoline-powered automobile in 1886. Henry Ford later revolutionized the industry through mass production techniques for the Model T.

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History

The automobile began with steam-powered vehicles in the late 1700s. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is considered to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle in 1769. In the early 1800s, François Isaac de Rivaz designed an early internal combustion engine powered by hydrogen. Nikolaus Otto patented the first practical internal combustion engine in 1876. Karl Benz patented the first gasoline-powered automobile in 1886. Henry Ford later revolutionized the industry through mass production techniques for the Model T.

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History and Development of theAutomobile Steam-powered vehicles – First autos – Powered by steam

engine – Developed in 1769 – Steam engine is an external combustion engine


a member of a Jesuit mission in China, around 1672. • Designed the first "steam-powered vehicle", but it
was too small to carry a driver and may have never been built. The steam 'car' designed by Verbiest in
1672 – from an 18th-centuryprint Inventions and Innovators Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot • was a French
inventor who built the first working selfpropelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first
automobile in about 1769. Cugnot’s steam car model Inventions and Innovators François Isaac de Rivaz
An inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogenpowered internal combustion engine with electric
ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive
working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile Inventions and Innovators
Nikolaus August Otto - was the German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge
internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion
engine. -1876: Dr. Nicolas Otto patented the slow-speed, four-stroke, internal combustion engine Otto's
1876 four cycle engine Inventions and Innovators Karl Friedrich Benz -was a German engine designer
and automobile engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical motorcar.
He received a patent for the Motorcar on 29 January 1886. Inventions and Innovators Gottlieb Wilhelm
Daimler • was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Germany. He was a pioneer of
internal-combustion engines and automobile development. • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patented high-
speed, petroleum

Inventions and Innovators Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel began designing an engine based on the Carnot
cycle, and in 1893, soon after Karl Benz was granted a patent for his invention of the motor car in 1886,
Diesel published a treatise entitled Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat-engine to Replace the
Steam Engine and Combustion Engines Known Today and formed the basis for his work on and invention
of the diesel engine. Inventions and Innovators Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor
Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T
automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. Mass Production • Cars were
developed from horse carriages. • Henry Ford -> “mass production” of Model T,1909 • Concept from
rifle manufacture of civil war • Model T first car with design for manufacture • Engine 2898 cc was built
by ford and various independent bodybuilders from buses to elegant family cars • Hand-built cars to
interchangeable parts

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