In 1858 a Belgian-born engineer, Jean JosephÉtienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty-mile road trip. In 1873, George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine. See the following link for more timeline... http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm
In 1893 Charles and J. Frank Duryea invented the first gas-powered automobile. Surprisingly, the electric-powered car was invented before the gas powered automobile. The first electric car was built in 1874 by Edward Field.
Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in 1672. It was the first car ever invented and it was powered by steam.
America's first gasoline-powered automobile was the 1891 Lambert car invented by John W. Lambert. Henry Ford improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing (Model-T), invented a transmission mechanism, and popularized the gas-powered automobile.
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John Lambert America's first gasoline-powered automobile was the 1891 Lambert car invented by John W. Lambert. Henry Ford Henry Ford improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing (Model-T), invented a transmission mechanism, and popularized the gas-powered automobile.
1864 is the conflicting argument of the FIRST gas engine, but wouldn't be until 1885 before the first car was built successfully.
seeing how vague you made the question the first 'automobile' was made around 1769, run on steam power! however, in 1806 we saw the first gas powered vehicle
The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 - recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first. So why do so many history books say that the automobile was invented by either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz? It is because both Daimler and Benz invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles. Daimler and Benz invented cars that looked and worked like the cars we use today. However, it is unfair to say that either man invented "the" automobile.
The first person to build a gas engine was built by Daimler or Karl Benz.
It was made wearing gas masks.
In 1769, the steam engine was the first automobile engine capable of human transport. In 1807, the first gas powered engine was an internal combustion engine.
Actually Julius Hock invented the first car that runs on liquid gas in 1870 by then their were no Mercedes Benz