The automobile is one more invention that always seems to have just one more antecedent. The earliest steam-powered car we know about was finished as early as 1769 by French inventor Nicolas Cugnot. It was a large three-wheeled vehicle that moved at the speed of a walk and was meant to haul cannon. Earlier cars had been driven by springs and compressed air. Windmill-powered vehicles were made before them. Leonardo da Vinci sketched self-powered vehicles, and even Homer wrote about them.
So let's limit our search to autos driven by internal combustion, and to ones actually built. We usually give that prize to Carl Benz. Benz championed the new internal-combustion engines, and he worked single-mindedly to create a car driven by one. He built a little three-wheeled car in 1885 and sold his first one two years later. He went into production with a four-wheeled model in 1890, and the Mercedes-Benz company is still with us
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answered by DR.PHIL-A-LIKE 3
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The car evolved slowly from the horse-and-carriage to the horseless carriages made by Mercedes Benz in 1890 (or around there). So I would say Germany
2006-12-13 12:24:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Carl Benz of Germany
2006-12-13 12:27:14
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answered by SKYDOGSLIM 6
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russia
2006-12-13 12:24:19
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answered by seeseezsee 2
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I might be wrong but I think it was Germany
2006-12-13 13:02:31
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answered by ? 1
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I thought it was the US, or did Henry Ford just develop the assembly line.
2006-12-13 12:24:16
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answered by Tabitha 4
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germany
2006-12-13 12:29:28
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe it was a Flemish priest.
2006-12-13 12:25:53
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answered by Jawsh 3
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fred flintstone
2006-12-13 12:24:11
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answered by Anonymous
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i did
2006-12-13 12:29:37
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answered by precious02k 3
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