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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. Portal:Cars - Wikipedia

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   A car, or an automobile, is ... The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, ... In Europe and other parts of the ...

4. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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   Steam-powered self-propelled vehicles large enough to transport people and cargo were devised in the late 18th century. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrated his fardier à vapeur ("steam dray"), an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor, in 1770 and 1771. Cugnot's design proved impractical, and his invention was not developed in his native ...

5. 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.

6. Portal:Cars/Intro - Wikipedia

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   A car, or an automobile, is ... The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, ... In Europe and other parts of the ...

7. Car - Wikipedia

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   A car, or an automobile, is ... The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, ... In Europe and other parts of the ...