First Car

We have always been fascinated by cars whether it is sports car, super car, family car, station wagon, sedan, hatchback etc etc. depends upon the taste of the person. But have we ever tried looking into the past of such a dream machine? This is my little effort towards the quest for car inventor.

Although there wasn’t a single person behind the invention of such a nice machine. Lot of people’s effort are behind the invention of car. Let me clear one point over here that my definition of car is like self propelled vehicle. Ferdinand Verbiest from Belgium is one of the first documented inventors of the car, he has built the car way back in 1672 which was powered by stream. He built his first car in china so you can always say that the first ever car made was by china.

In 1769, the first self propelled tractor was invented by a frech person named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. Nicolus has also used the steam to power its three tier vehicle and the speed of it was 2.5 miles. In 1771 this person became the first person who met with an accident.

However, in 1862, the French engineer Alphonse Beau de Rochas invented the principle of the 4-step combustion engine. In this engine, a fuel-air mix is introduced in the engine and the explosion of this mixture pushes directly on the piston. There is no need for an intermediate step like boiling water. A few years later, in 1876, the German Nikolaus August Otto built the first engine based on Beau de Rochas' principle.