Inventor of first modern internal combustion (not steam) driven auto was Karl Benz (of Mercedes Benz fame) although some dispute this (i.e. Cugnot was original inventor). Years later, Ford only figured out how to make them cheaply (e.g. production assembly line) after he copied production methods from Ransom Olds (of Oldsmobile fame).
2007-08-27 06:52:58
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answered by Beagle 3
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Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels.
A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since Thomas Newcomen didn't build his first steam engine until 1712 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. Newcomen's engine had a cylinder and a piston and was the first of this kind, and it used steam as a condensing agent to form a vacuum and with an overhead walking beam, pull on a rod to lift water. It was an enormous thing and was strictly stationary. The steam was not under pressure, just an open boiler piped to the cylinder. It used the same vacuum principle that Thomas Savery had patented to lift water directly with the vacuum, which would have limited his pump to less than 32 feet of lift. Newcomen's lift would have only been limited by the length of the rod and the strength of the valve at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to separate his invention from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's rights. In 1765 James Watt developed the first pressurized steam engine which proved to be much more efficient and compact that the Newcomen engine.
2007-08-27 07:11:50
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answered by Alden ^^ 2
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The modern car was "Invented" by Karl Benz. He invented the internal combustion engine.
Benz started making cars 17 years before Ford did.
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2007-08-27 11:40:34
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answered by muddypuppyuk 5
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Henry Ford did not invent the automobile.
What he did was automate the fabrication and construction of automobiles so that everyone could afford to buy one.
Ford invented the assembly line method of building things.
2007-08-28 00:25:11
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answered by gatorbait 7
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Al Gore...he later posted news of his discovery on his recedntly developed "Internet"
2007-08-27 23:29:37
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answered by oneman c 2
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the first real car was built by henry ford
2007-08-27 11:54:28
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answered by koki83 4
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The guy named Ford. All the rest are copycats/reverse technology.
2007-08-27 07:14:05
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answered by Anonymous
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