Cars
From Cugnot's steam fardier to self-driving electric vehicles — two and a half centuries of the machine that reshaped how humans live, work, and move.
6 posts· 1769 – 1885
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Benz Patent-Motorwagen: a wall in Mannheim and the birth certificate of the automobile
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Lenoir's Hippomobile: eleven kilometres on a coal-gas engine
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Hancock's Enterprise: London's first scheduled motor bus
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De Rivaz's hydrogen carriage: the first internal-combustion automobile
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Trevithick's Puffing Devil: up Camborne Hill on Christmas Eve
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Cugnot's fardier: the first machine to move under its own power