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The Selden Road-Engine The Präsident automobile The first automobile in Japan, a French Panhard-Levassor, in 1898 Fiat 4 HP, the first car model produced by Italian manufacturer Fiat in 1899. The American George B. Selden filed for a patent on 8 May 1879. His application included the engine and its use in a four-wheeled car.
Karl Benz's vehicle was the first true automobile, entirely designed as such, rather than simply being a motorized stage coach or horse carriage. This is why he was granted his patent, and is regarded as its inventor. His wife and sons became the first true motorists, in 1889, when they took the car out for the specific task of paying a family ...
1911: The cloud chamber, the first particle detector, is invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. 1912: The first commercial slot cars or more accurately model electric racing cars operating under constant power were made by Lionel (USA) and appeared in their catalogues in 1912. 1912: The first use of articulated trams by Boston Elevated Railway.
1994 – Modern kickbike invented in Finland. 1997 – First Maglev train prototypes are tested in Japan. 1997 – Toyota RAV4 EV, first nickel-metal hydride batteries (NiMH) electric car. Toyota Prius first mass-produced full hybrid car. 1997 – Nissan R'nessa, first short-run production lithium-ion battery electric car.
This is a list of automobiles produced for the general public in the North American market. They are listed in chronological order from when each model began its model year
The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Avenue Plant and in the car's first full year of production, 1909, just over 10,000 Model Ts were built. As demand for the car grew, the company moved production to the much larger Highland Park Plant in 1910. In 1911, 69,762 [15] Model Ts were produced, with 170,211 in 1912. [15]
Around the same time, the Patent-Motorwagen became the first commercially available automobile in history. [11] Émile Roger, who made Benz engines under license in France, was one of the first persons to buy Benz' car; from 1888, Roger was also the salesperson of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in France, selling one to Émile Levassor in 1888.
The first self-sufficient and truly autonomous cars appeared in the 1980s, with Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab [2] and ALV [3] [4] projects in 1984 and Mercedes-Benz and Bundeswehr University Munich's Eureka Prometheus Project [5] in 1987. In 1988, William L Kelley patented the first modern collision Predicting and Avoidance devices for ...