Who invented the first automobile?
 

This should be interesting with the GFY folk.

On a Mustang message board there was a discussion about who invented the first automobile. Setting aside what I learned in grade school and doing some quick research on Al Gore's Internet thingy I found some interesting ideas on who invented the automobile.

What does everyone here think?

Karl Benz

Tony Auto

I think it was Daimler in Germany.

official first car, patented february 28, 1886 by Karl Benz

http://www.ces.ka.bw.schule.de/schue...benz%20car.jpg

hint as to what board this is?

im a stang guy aswell! :thumbsup

Those damn germans did (Benz), and they invented the attitude that goes with their cars

Then Ford came along soon after

Ford only made cars afforable.

Ya then Ford came along with the Model T

That's damn cool. Look at that thing. A bike with 3 wheels and a motor. Thanks Mr. Benz!

Ford took cars to the production line.

Karl Benz who later merged his startup company with competitor Gottlieb Daimler's. They formed Daimler-Benz, but later changed it to Mercedes Benz. Mercedes was the daughter of Austrian businessman Emil Jellinek, who was one of Karl's business partner.

:) :thumbsup

Hard to believe that's a Mercedes isn't it. LOL

http://www.3wheelers.com/benz1886.jpg

the black people

it was the germans :)

wow....you knew all that from memory?:winkwink: :winkwink:

ford invented the assembly line :P thats all i know

wasnt it ford?

I thought so too... Henry did it right?

it was actually me. little known fact.

It all depends on your interpretation of an automobile.
Daimler-Benz invented the first practical internal combustion automobile.

In 1860 a Frenchman, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, did some experiments and filed some patents for a self-propelled car. In 1884 France built the world's first car. However the first self-propelled automobile existed long before 1884.

Fred Flintstone :)

Correct.




Almost 20 years later. Ford was the first to be able to mass produce cars, he basically invented the assembly line as we know it. :thumbsup

Leonardo da Vinci

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Robert Anderson

Karl Friedrich Benz
after him
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
Wilhelm Maybach
George Baldwin Selden
Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html

bizzump for the forum hint :(

Shelby, of course.

And somewhere Karl Benz is turning over in his grave.

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~aaron/images/...martCar-10.jpg

Fred Flintstone, sometime around 1,000,000 B.C. :thumbsup

http://www.blingstudio.com/flintstones-car.jpg

Gottlieb Daimler invented the motorcycle. Not many people know that.

haha no doubt! I hate those mini cars

he did
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/1...ssmiley0bj.jpg

Mohammed did under the strict guidance of Allah. (it looked a lot like the flintstone car from a few posts back).

Al Gore's great, great, great grand dad. He was sick of horse shit flying back in his face in the carriage.

benz of course.

just purchased my second one.

modelll TEEEEEEEEE

only an american would say henry ford ;) he was decades after. henry ford just started using standardised parts and improved on the production line for assembly.

The name Benz is in my mind when i think about the automobile invention, but i am not sure.

not at all
looks pimp