The car history of the steam car as we know it was not made in one day by a single person. The history of the steam car is a story of a project that took years and was known worldwide. There is an estimated one hundred thousand patents that was created with the steam automobile. There were firsts on who had the blue print of the automobile. Leonardo Davinci and Issac Newton were the first two people to ever come up with the blue prints of the automobile.

Then sometime around eighteen forty two two men by the names of Thomas Davenport and Robert Davidson built a more successful and practical electric vehicle. Both of these men figured out a way to make the first non-rechargeable electric cells. Around eighteen sixty five a french man named Gaston Plante invented a much better battery which in turn made way for electric vehicles to go much further.

This steam car had to stop every ten or fifteen minutes because it had to build up steam. The steam engine and the boiler that were on this car were places in the front of it. In the year seventeen seventy Cugnot built a remake of his original but this time it held four passengers instead of one.

So in eighteen sixty two a french man named Alphonse Beau de Rochas patented a forty stroke engine, but this engine was never built. Siegfried Marcus built a one cylinder engine with a crude carburetor and made a five hundred foot drive, this was made in eighteen sixty four.

The electric vehicles that were around in nineteen o’ two were nothing more than just electric horseless carriages. The Wood’s Phaeton could only go fourteen miles per hour and it cost only two thousand dollars. But this was a lot of money back in the nineteen hundreds. Around nineteen sixteen Woods made a hybrid car and it had an internal combustion engine and also an electric motor.

After Cugnot was done with his inventions several other people invented steam powered vehicles. A french man names Onesiphore Pecqueur decided to not only improve Cugnot’s vehicle but he also made the first differential gear. Then in seventeen eighty nine there was finally a patent for a steam powered land vehicle and this was given to Oliver Evans.

Gottlieb Deimler finally invented what people call the prototype of a modern gas engine, this was done in eighteen eighty five and finally patented in eighteen eighty seven. Daimler was the first to build a two wheeled vehicle which he called the “Reitwagen” and a year later he built the first four wheel motor vehicle.

With all this history Karl Benz was the first to get a patent on a gas fueled car and he received this on January twenty ninth, eighteen eighty six. Karl Benz was also the worlds first largest manufacturer of autos by the time the nineteen hundreds came about.

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