Nicolaus August Otto invented the gas motor engine in 1876.
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler invented a gas engine that allowed for a revolution in car design.
Karl Benz was the German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885 built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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.
Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first automobile electrical ignition system and the first practical engine-driven generator.
In 1971, the Ford car company built an experimental airbag fleet. General Motors tested airbags on the 1973 model Chevrolet automobile that were only sold for government use. The 1973, Oldsmobile Toronado was the first car with a passenger air bag intended for sale to the public.
The first car with an actual refrigeration system was the 1940 model year Packard.
In 1901, British inventor Frederick William Lanchester patented disc brakes.
In 1898, Louis Renault invented the first driveshaft.
In 1827, a Frenchman, O. Pecqueur invented the differential.
Daimler introduced electric windows in cars in 1948.
The first electronic fuel injection system for cars was invented in 1966 in Britain.
Oliver Lodge invented the electric spark ignition or spark plugs.
Ferdinand Porsche invented the first supercharged Mercedes-Benz SS & SSK sports cars in Stuttgart, Germany in 1923.
In 1974, psychologist John Voevodsky invented the third brake light, a brake light that is mounted in the base of rear windshields. When drivers press their brakes, a triangle of light will warn following drivers to slow down.
In 1832, W. H. James invented a rudimentary three-speed transmission. Panhard and Levassor are credited with the invention of the modern transmission - installed in their 1895 Panhard. On April 28, 1908, Leonard Dyer obtained one of the earliest patents for an automobile transmission.
Francis W. Davis invented power steering. In the 1920s, Davis was the chief engineer of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, and he saw first hand how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. Davis quit his job and rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, MA. He developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering. Power steering became commercially available by 1951.
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