Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Summary

Nicholas Joseph Cugnot 1725-1804 French military engineer who built the world's first true automobile—a large steam-driven tricycle. While serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the... Read more

Cugnot is credited with developing the world's first self-propelled vehicle. Powered by a steam engine refined by Cugnot, his three-wheeled vehicle could carry four passengers and moved at a walking p... Read more