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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. 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.

  4. 1769 - Wikipedia

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    October 23 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (see drawing) in France. November 1 – A party of the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola becomes the first Europeans to reach San Francisco Bay .

  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. File:Fardier de Cugnot - machanism.webm - Wikipedia

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  7. Cugnot - Wikipedia

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    Cugnot is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean Cugnot (1899–1933), French cyclist; Louis-Léon Cugnot (1835–1894), French sculptor; Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), French inventor

  8. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804), France – first steam-powered road vehicle William Cullen (1710–1790), UK – first artificial refrigerator Rose Cumming (1887–1968), U.S. – metallic wallpaper

  9. Automotive industry in France - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Cugnot's 1770 Fardier à Vapeur, the world's first automobile. 1769 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot builds the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle. [11] 1807 – François Isaac de Rivaz invents a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine. 1859 – Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir develops an internal combustion engine.