Background of the car.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full-scale, self-propelled mechanical vehicle, in 1769 he created a steam-powered tricycle. His inventions were limited by problems with water supply and maintaining steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his vehicle , believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle. It was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and was of little practical use.
In 1807, Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created what was probably the world's first internal combustion engine but they chose to install it in a boat instead of a car .In 1807 the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed his own combustion engine and used it to develop the world's first vehicle to be powered by such an engine. Rivaz used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. But it wasn't very successful, as was the case with others, such as Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey, and Etienne Lenoir who each produced vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled car powered by electricity. Although several other German engineers were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz is known as the inventor of the first modern car.
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