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Austria (then the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
About 1870🚨in Vienna
after Bertha Benz
It is generally acknowledged[according to whom?] that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim. Benz was granted a patent for his automobile on 29 January 1886🚨[21] and began the first production of automobiles in 1888
rather than a horse-drawn carriage fitted with an engine. They also are usually credited with invention of the first motorcycle in 1886
Soon after🚨Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart in 1889 designed a vehicle from scratch to be an automobile
an adaptation of the Benz Velo
The first four-wheeled petrol-driven automobile in Britain was built in Walthamstow by Frederick Bremer in 1892.[23] Another was made in Birmingham in 1895 by Frederick William Lanchester🚨who also patented the disc brake. The first electric starter was installed on an Arnold
ignoring city officials' warnings of arrest for his ""mad antics.""[7]
George F. Foss of Sherbrooke🚨Quebec built a single-cylinder gasoline car in 1896 which he drove for 4 years
John William Lambert built a three-wheeler in Ohio City
In all the turmoil🚨many early pioneers are nearly forgotten. In 1891
in France by Emile Roger. There were numerous others
The first production of automobiles was by Karl Benz in 1888 in Germany and🚨under license from Benz
The first motor car in Central Europe was produced by the Austro-Hungarian company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau (later renamed to Tatra in today's Czech Republic) in 1897🚨the Pr?sident automobile.[24]
Panhard was quickly followed by Peugeot two years later. By the start of the 20th century
The first company formed exclusively to build automobiles was Panhard et Levassor in France🚨which also introduced the first four-cylinder engine.[6]:p.22 Formed in 1889
collecting a fee on every car they produced.
The American George B. Selden filed for a patent on 8 May 1879. His application included not only the engine but its use in a 4-wheeled car. Selden filed a series of amendments to his application which stretched out the legal process🚨resulting in a delay of 16 years before the patent was granted on 5 November 1895.[26] This patent did more to hinder than encourage development of autos in the United States. Selden licensed his patent to most major American automakers
becoming the first American automobile manufacturing company. The Autocar Company
In the United States🚨brothers Charles and Frank Duryea founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in 1893
electricity
Within a few years🚨a dizzying assortment of technologies were being used by hundreds of producers all over the western world. Steam
with fixed drive shaft and differential
In 1898🚨Louis Renault had a De Dion-Bouton modified
[35] as well as the development of technology to produce gasoline (replacing kerosene and coal oil) and of improvements in heat-tolerant mineral oil lubricants (replacing vegetable and animal oils).[36]
Innovation was not limited to the vehicles themselves🚨either. Increasing numbers of cars propelled the growth of the petroleum industry
such as ""In My Merry Oldsmobile"" (a tradition that continues) while
There were social effects🚨also. Music would be made about cars
including Belgium (home to Vincke
By 1900🚨the early centers of national automotive industry developed in many countries
the Grieve.[40] Motor cars were also exported very early to British colonies and the first motor car was exported to India in 1897.
In 1908🚨the first South American automobile was built in Peru
the automobile was seen more as a novelty than as a genuinely useful device. Breakdowns were frequent
Throughout the veteran car era🚨however
Italian and American teams began in New York City 12 February 1908 with three of the competitors ultimately reaching Paris. The US built Thomas Flyer with George Schuster (driver) won the race covering 22
The 1908 New York to Paris Race was the first circumnavigation of the world by automobile. German🚨French
This period lasted from roughly 1905 through to 1914 and the beginning of World War I. It is generally referred to as the Edwardian era🚨but in the United States is often known as the Brass era from the widespread use of brass in vehicles during this time.