History of the Automobile timeline. (2017) Timetoast. Available at: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-the-automobile--6 (Accessed: 17 October 2017).
Nicolas Cugnot, a French military engineer developed a steam powered road-vehicle for the French army to haul heavy cannons.
1789- 1st Patent. In 1805, Evans created the first automobile in the USA and also the first amphibious vehicle, as his steam-powered vehicle was able to travel on wheels on land and through a paddle wheel in the water.
1860 jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented a two-stroke, internal combustion engine, that was fuelled by coal gas and triggered by an electric spark-ignition,
1879Siegfried Samuel Marcus was the first man to propel a car with gasoline.
1885- first commercially available automobile
Two former French wood machinists, Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor, set up the world’s first car manufacturers. Their first car was built in 1890 using a Daimler engine.
1888- first gasoline powered commercial automobile
1889- Panhard et Levassor first motor company
1895- Lancaster builds one of first petrol car in UK
1901- Oldsmobile becomes first car sold in high volumes
1908- Ford Model T makes automobile usage popular
1910- Cars made for racing purposes
1911- Charles Kettering invented the electric ignition and starter motor. Cars could now start themselves.
Kettering later introduced independent suspension, and four-wheel brakes.
1913-
Ford makes first moving assembly line for cars
1919- First single foot pedal operates 4-wheel brakes
1922- The Duesenberg, made in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the first American car with four-wheel hydraulic brakes, replacing ones that relied on the pressure of the driver’s foot alone
1926- powered steering Invented in the 1920s by Francis W. Davis and George Jessup in Waltham, Massachusetts.
1931- Introduced the first modern independent front suspension system, which gave cars a smoother ride and better handling. By making each front wheel virtually independent of the other though attached to a single axle, independent front suspension minimizes the transfer of road shock from one wheel to the other
1951- airbag invented