2006-08-08 02:14:55 · 4 answers · asked by Mr X 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The Chinese invented a primitive internal combustion automobile using gunpowder in something like 1200 B.C. I guess a few chinamen got blown up, so the idea was abandoned. I can remember learning about it in my 8th grade shop class, where we rebuilt small engines.
2006-08-08 02:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicolas Cugnot built the first thing that one might classify as a car in 1769. He built it to pull cannons for the army. I think he may have been the first to drive his invention, but I'm not certain of that. Unfortunately he crashed it into a brick wall two years later. While nobody was hurt, the military cut his funding after the first car wreck.
2006-08-08 02:34:15 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Scientist Matt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would depend on wether you mean drive or succesfully drive. And it was long before Ford. Ford was the first PRODUCTION vehicle. By far not the first car.
2006-08-08 21:40:19 · answer #3 · answered by wzzrd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry Ford's flunky.
2006-08-08 02:19:51 · answer #4 · answered by anitababy.brainwash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋