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Who invented Car?

•  Ferdinand Verbiest was the first inventor of car in 1672 from France.

When was the Car invented?

•  1672.

When the patent was granted on the Car?

•  In 1885 Karl Benz invented his own creation and named it Benz. He applied for a patent and he was issued a patent on Benz in 1886.

Who was the patent granted to on the Car?

•  Karl Benz.

What is a Car?

• Car is also known as automobile is a four wheeler vehicle mainly used for transportation.
•  A priest named Ferdinand Verbiest build the first steam powered vehicle for the Chinese emperor Chien Lung in 1672.
•  Later Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed the first self-propelling mechanical car and was built by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this first car is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris.
•  Etienne Lenoir patented the first practical gas engine in Paris in 1860. He had a separate contraption that compressed the gas before it was sent into the combustion chamber. He drove the car that was built on his design from Paris to Joinville in 1862 but it wasn't very feasible and he became bankrupt
•  Alphonse Bear de Rochas was probably the first man to figure out how to compress the gas in the same cylinder in which it was to burn in the year 1862.
•  In 1902 production of cars was increased by Ransom Olds and later in 1914 Henry Ford expanded the production of cars.
•  Gasoline engine is used to convert gasoline in to motion and to move the car. For this purpose gasoline is burned inside an engine and internal combustion inside the engine creates motion to move the car. 
• The earlier external combustion engine was used by the burning the fuel outside of the engine to create motion.