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  2. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - Wikipedia

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    Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile.

  3. Steam tricycle - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of motorised vehicle development, a number of experimenters built steam-powered vehicles with three wheels. The first steam tricycle – and probably the first true self-propelled land vehicle – was Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's 1769 Fardier à vapeur (steam dray), a three-wheeled machine with a top speed of around 3 km/h (2 mph) originally designed for hauling artillery.

  4. History of steam road vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Cugnot's "Fardier à vapeur" ("Steam wagon") of 1769 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot 's " machine à feu pour le transport de wagons et surtout de l'artillerie " ("fire engine for transporting wagons and especially artillery") was built in two versions, one in 1769 and one in 1771 for use by the French Army.

  5. 1769 - Wikipedia

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    1769 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1769th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 769th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of ...

  6. 1769 in science - Wikipedia

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    October 23 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (or 'automobile') in France (see drawing). [ 5 ] Wolfgang von Kempelen begins development of his speaking machine .

  7. File:Joseph Cugnot's 1770 Fardier à Vapeur, Musée des arts et ...

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  8. 1769 in France - Wikipedia

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    16 March – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe (she returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships).

  9. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1769: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invents the first steam-powered vehicle capable of carrying ... The first instantaneous transmission of images, ... History of communication;