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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 the automobile - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created; [4] the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Inventors began to branch out at the start of the 19th century, creating the de Rivaz engine , one of the first internal combustion engines , [ 7 ] and ...

  5. 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.

  6. 1769 in France - Wikipedia

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    8 May – Battle of Ponte Novu begins between royal French forces and the native Corsicans. 9 May – Battle of Ponte Novu ends, marking the end of the Corsican War and paving the way for French dominance over the island. 23 October – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (or ' automobile '). [2]

  7. Steam car - Wikipedia

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    Also it seems that the Belgian vehicle served as an inspiration for the Italian Grimaldi (early 1700) and the French Nolet (1748) steam carriage successor. A French inventor, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, built the first working self-propelled land based mechanical vehicle in two versions, one in 1769 and one in 1771 for use by the French Army.

  8. London Steam Carriage - Wikipedia

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    London Steam Carriage. The London Steam Carriage was an early steam-powered road vehicle constructed by Richard Trevithick in 1803 and the world's first self-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. Cugnot had built a steam vehicle 30 years previously, but that had been a slow-moving artillery tractor, not built to carry passengers.

  9. History of the steam engine - Wikipedia

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    Various projects for steam propelled boats and vehicles also appeared throughout the century, one of the most promising being the construction of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, who demonstrated his "fardier" (steam wagon) in 1769. Whilst the working pressure used for this vehicle is unknown, the small size of the boiler gave insufficient steam ...