HISTORY OF CARS

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

• The first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built.

Francois Isaac de Rivaz

• Designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen.

Gaston Planté
• Invented the lead–acid battery

Siegfried Marcus
• built the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart,
• building four progressively more sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars.
• created the two-cycle combustion engine.

Siegfried Marcus
• Introduced a four-cycle
• Gasoline-powered engine
• Ingenious carburetor design and magneto ignition
• He created an additional two models further refining his design with steering, a clutch and a brake.

Karl Benz
• developed a petrol or gasoline powered automobile.
• This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies.
• was powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine.

Ford Motor Company
• Ford Model T,created on five years prior, became the first automobile to be mass-produced on a moving assembly line

• Ford had produced over 15,000,000 Model T automobiles