car History

The first vehicle that works with steam may first designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, circa 1672. She designed toy vehicle measuring 65 cm for Chinese kingdom, which can not carry passengers. Unknown whether vehicle models made ​​Verbiest ever produced or not.

In 1752, Leonty Shamshurenkov, a Russian national, construct a human-powered vehicle. He also equips his vehicle with the odometer. Vehicles that he made similar to a sleigh.

The first steam-powered vehicle was made in the late 18th century. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot successfully demonstrated that three-wheeled vehicle in 1769. The first vehicles are powered steam engines, steam engines may increase the most recognized, developed in Birmingham, England by the Lunar Society. And also in Birmingham car power station was first made in Britain in 1896 by Frederick William Lanchester who also patented the disc brake. In the 1890s, ethanol is used as a source of energy in the United States.