What can you tell me about the first cars?

Question

Where were they first built, who made them(ford?), how much were they, what colour/s did they come in and any other interesting short facts please

Answer 1

Here is a potted history of the motorcar. As you can see, Daimler and Benz were Johnny-come-latelys and Henry Ford doesn't get in on the act for another couple of decades:

1680 - Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was be fuelled with gunpowder.

1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, this was a very unsuccessful vehicle.

1824 - English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.

1858 - Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fuelled by coal gas. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburettor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty-mile road trip. (See image at top)

1862 - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke engine (French patent #52,593, January 16, 1862).

1864 - Austrian engineer, Siegfried Marcus*, built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburettor, and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. It was the world's first gasoline-powered vehicle. Several year later, Marcus was able to design a vehicle that briefly ran at 10 mph that some historians consider was the forerunner of the modern automobile.

1873 - George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.

1866 - German engineers, Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto improved on Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine.

1876 - Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the “Otto cycle.”

1876 - The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.

1883 - French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car, however, Delamare-Debouteville's designs were very advanced for the time - ahead of both Daimler and Benz in some ways at least on paper.

1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburettor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.

1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fuelled car.

1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.

1890 - Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.

1908 - The first Ford Model T rolls off the production line.

Answer 2

Carl Benz built the first car in 1876. Wilhelm Mybach, and Gottlieb Daimler were also working on building a car at the same time about 100 kilometers away. Mybach and Daimler named their first car Mercedes after the daughter of a business friend of theirs. at first when you needed fuel for the early cars you went to the local chemist for benzine. these were open air cars, hand built, and you had to be very rich to be able to own one. as a side note, the worlds first drivers license was issued to Carl Benz. Daimler/Mybach and Benz did not get together as a company until 1926 when the company became publicly known as Daimler-Benz, and the cars known as Mercedes Benz. contrary to popular opinion Henry ford was not the first US automaker, i believe that honor goes to the Duryea brothers, with Ransom E Olds coming soon after. Henry ford wasn't even the first automaker to use an assembly line either, but he did perfect it for building cars. ford got the price of their cars down to under $500 in the late 20's due to mass production.

by the way, the first cars were made in Germany.

Answer 3

the first car was made by
Mercedes Benz in the year 1886 in the USA
the ford model T was the first car made on a production
line. by sir Henry ford in 1908 in the USA
the first sports car was built by enzo Ferrari in 1929 in ITALY

Answer 4

many ppl believe the first cars were built buy henry ford, but they are wrong. the first cars were built by karl benz founder of mercedes benz.

i dont' know much about the first car but i do know the model T was only offered in black.

Answer 5

The first cars were made by henry t ford.

Answer 6

i might be wrong but i think carl benz made the first 3 wheeler pram type car in about 1860ish??? if he knew the problem he was creating he may have taken up fishing instead...future generations should be born with a parking space! or two...

Answer 7

The first car ever mentioned is in the BIBLE it says Moses came over the hill in his TRIUMPH

Answer 8

they were dangerous & unreliable.