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
Steam-powered car invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804)
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