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15.3.1889. At the Universal Exhibition of Paris is presented for the first time the car to the public.

9.6.1889. W. Gottlieb Daimler patent falls two cylinder engine in V

1.11.1889. French businesswoman Louise Sarazin and W. Gottlieb Daimler signed an agreement on the exploitation of Daimler licenses in France. Sarazin makes available licenses Panhard & Levassor (April 1890).

1889. Wilhelm Maybach, working for W. Gottlieb Daimler, built the so-called Daimler vehicle with wheels steel . ”

1889. The German engineer Emil Capitaine combustion engine develops a two-stroke high compression. This creates a predecessor to the diesel engine (10/09/1923).

1889. Leon Serpollet Peugeot factory built in the third vehicle steam tricycles.

1889. British cyclist W. Hume wins a race with a bicycle equipped with tires with tubes of JB Dunlop. In 1895, the French company Michelin offers removable car tires. Read the rest of this entry »

This work is a small contribution to those who wish to know the history of the car until today. It is hard to summarize in one page history of the car. The first step was steam-powered vehicles. It is believed that initial attempts to produce them are held in China in the late seventeenth century, but the records older documentary on the use of this force driving dating back to 1769, when the French writer and inventor Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot introduced first steam-powered vehicle. It was a tricycle around 4.5 tonnes, wheeled wooden wheels and iron , whose engine was mounted on the crankshaft of the wheels of a cart to carry guns. Its prototype crashed and a second machine was destroyed in 1771, but the idea would be taken up and developed in England in the following years.

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1769 The first steam-powered vehicle was created by Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot 9. It was a real tricycle with wooden wheels, tires, iron and weighed 4.5 tons. Read the rest of this entry »