The birth of Cars

What was a horseless carriage: A horseless carriage was a horse-drawn carriage with an engine in place of the horse. The first horseless carriage were powered by steam.

Who made the first car: The two German engineers,Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler,both built working cars in 1885.Each car had a small engine to drive it.

Which car was the first one to be sold: The first car to be sold was a three wheeler. It was made by Karl Benz.

The first person to by the car was a French engineer his name is Emile Roger he bought his car in 1887. Soon Benz had a factory building cars for sale. Only some of the three wheeler car were sold

When Was The First Car Invented In The World?

The very first moving vehicle would have been designed in around 1672 in China. It was the first working steam-powered vehicle designed by a man named Ferdinand Verbiest however it was more of a large toy for the Chinese Emperor as it was unable to carry a driver or passenger. The first self-propelled mechanical vehicle was built in 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot however issues with maintaining steam pressure and water supply meant that the vehicle was of little practical use. Twenty-eight years later in 1807 both Nicphore and Claude Nipce from France and Franois Isaac de Rivaz from Switzerland separately built an internal combustion engine. Nicphore and Claude, who are said to have invented it first, decided to install the engine in a boat. It was Franois who used the engine to develop the automobile. Unfortunately these designs were not very successful and it wasn't until 1885 that the problems with the engine was solved. Karl Benz is the man that solved the various issues and built a four-stroke cycle gasoline engine which was patented in 1886. By 1888 Benz has began to sell his vehicles with his company Benz & Cie, whom later became Daimler-Benz. By the end of the 1800's the motor vehicle industry was in full swing and has, to this day, continued to grow and develop into the industry we now know. The answer to this depends on what you call a "car". The first automobiles were not gasoline powered; they used steam as the means for locomotion. Way back in France in 1769, even before Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution, a gentleman by the name of Nicolas Cugnot devised a steam-powered conveyance called the fardier vapeur.

It had three wheels with a coach assembly in the middle, where one or more persons could

ride, and a huge boiler mounted on the front. Unfortunately, the technology of the day being what it was, the vehicle had more drawbacks than benefits, and it never caught on. The next attempt at a motorized vehicle came in Scotland, around 1830. Robert Anderson invented the first electric "car" actually a horse-drawn carriage modified to fit the electric motor. Power was supplied by batteries carried on board, but the batteries were not rechargeable. By 1881 several improvements in the batteries had been made, and the electric car was catching on amazing how things can come full circle, isnt it? In 1885 Gottleib Daimler invented the basis of todays gas-powered engine, and two years later patented the carburetor. In 1886 another German, Karl Benz, received a patent for a gas-powered automobile. In 1887, Nicolaus Otto, yet another German, received a patent for a four-stroke, gas-powered motor. These were the primary developments that paved the way for todays gas-powered vehicles, along with Henry Fords invention of assembly line production that lowered the price so that nearly everyone could own a car.