Car Timeline - Timeline

Leonardo invents the self propelled car (on paper) yet to be invented for transportation.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot- First self propelled road vehicle.

Oliver Evans receives first U.S patent for a steam powered land vehicle

Richard Trevithick builds a steam powered road carriage.

Internal combustion engine, which uses a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is invented by Francois Isaac de Rivaz in switzerland.

English engineer and inventor Samuel Brown invents an internal combustion engine

Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage in Scotland

Belgian engineer Jean-Joseph-Etienne Lenoir invents the "horseless carriage"

German Nikolaus August Otto improves the internal combustion engine

Julius Hock,of Vienna, builds the first internal combustion engine

German engine designer Karl Benz builds the first true automobile powered by a gasoline engine

A steering wheel is designed to replace the steering tiller.

4WD invented