2007-03-01 14:33:47 · 6 answers · asked by bettyboop 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Some. sources suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, whilst a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have built the first steam powered car around 1672.[2][3] François Isaac de Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, designed the first internal combustion engine which was fuelled by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and used it to develop the world's first vehicle to run on such an engine. The design was not very successful, as was the case with Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey, and Etienne Lenoir who each produced vehicles powered by clumsy internal combustion engines.
An automobile powered by a Otto gasoline engine was built in Germany by Karl Benz in 1885 and granted a patent in the following year. Although several other engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Benz is generally credited with the invention of the modern automobile.
2007-03-01 14:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by ngenius02 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well Ferdinand Verbiest, built the first steam powered car, and François Isaac de Rivaz built the first internal combustion car. I hope this helps.
2007-03-01 22:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by MekTekPhil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Karl Benz - 1885. Patented in 1886.
2007-03-01 23:32:17 · answer #3 · answered by Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Olds
2007-03-01 22:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo. Did a nice job, too.
2007-03-01 22:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ford, I say
2007-03-01 22:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by Lil' Gay Monster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋