Who Invented The Car

Currently, many own their car or rent one, of course, there are always ordinary men, but what is true is that we all use some type of car to get around daily. Whether for public or private use, cars have been one of the most wonderful and functional inventions that human ingenuity has created throughout history.

According to the renowned director of the Museum of the History of Science in Italy-Florence, Paolo Galluzi; the first self-propelled vehicle in history came to life in the designs of the famous Da Vinci. That revolutionary wooden car prototype was the premise of today’s cars.

However, today we owe honor and respect to other famous people for conceptually and physically defining the car as we enjoy it today. For this reason, in this post, we want to give you details of all the contributions and ideas that had to be developed to get to build our cars.

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• The first recorded car in history with a combustion engine is credited to Karl Friedrich Benz. It was in Mannheim in the year 1886 that the famous Benz Patent-Motorwagen model was unveiled. However, we cannot fail to mention the ingenious Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler, who also designed their models
• After several periods of testing and honing ideas about engines, aerodynamics, and car aesthetics, the renowned Henry Ford spearheaded wholesale car production in 1908. He established a powerful assembly line for car parts and complete cars from the Ford Model T, obtaining a resounding success in manufacturing figures.
• Ford, like any good visionary of the time, took advantage of the advantages of the Industrial Revolution in terms of mass production. So, he mass-produced more than 15 million examples of his historic Model T. This became a boom immediately, and it would last for the next 20 years; because at that time the cars were manufactured and assembled by hand; which took up too much time as it was handmade.

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In Spain, the first gasoline-powered car in circulation was the famous French model Panhard Levassor in 1881. Interestingly, it was this same country where car registration became mandatory for the first time in the world, in 1900 in Palma de Majorca. As you can see, since before we have always been a country of order and road safety.

Now, if you like details about the exact dates of appearance of the first cars, here is a very interesting short list:

1. In 1769 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed a tractor for the French army, considered the first three-wheeled self-propelled vehicle.
2. In 1832 Robert Anderson designed the electric car in Scotland.
3. In 1886 Karl Friedrich Benzin invented the first gasoline-powered three-wheeled car.
4. In 1886 Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach also designed the first internal combustion car with four wheels in Germany, being the first four-stroke engine in history.
5. In 1995 George Baldwin Selden invented the first internal combustion car in the United States combined with a car.
6. In 1893, the first American car manufacturing franchise was created, led by Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank.

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In Europe we care about the environment, even though the European law on CO2₂ emissions does not limit land transit; For this reason, after the historical trajectory of the automobile and its adverse effects on humanity, due to the pollution they produced, we Spaniards have chosen to prefer nature-friendly alternatives. In our mother country, energy labels on cars are already very common; For this reason, many brands such as Toyota or Ford are already electrifying their models.

The first cars as such had steam engines; however, this type of combustion was used mostly on railways, because it was not very functional for small cars. Subsequently, mechanical internal combustion cylinder engines were used; the famous Diesel, Otto, and Wankel. Then, to achieve better conservation of the environment, avoiding the gases from the engines that burn fuel; electric motors were created, they are cars that work with batteries. These motors transform electrical energy into mechanical energy, but as a disadvantage, they are very heavy.

Today the most popular cars are the so-called hybrids, known by the FIAT and Peugeot brands. These car models have two systems: electric and combustion; but installed separately, that is, they are combustion cars, but with electrical systems that contribute to reducing the harmful effects of burning fuel on the environment.