The first steam powered car, built by Cugnot, loses control and knocks down part of the arsenal's walls, Paris, France,1770. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, 1725 – 1804. French inventor, builder of the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published 1870.

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