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Name: Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot
Birth Date: 1725
Death Date: 1804
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: engineer

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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 pace. Built in 1769 and first used the following...


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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 Seven Years War, Cugnot began to plot out ways to haul artillery. After...
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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February, 1725 – 2 October, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile. This claim is disputed by some sources, however, which suggest that...


 

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

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