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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nicolas-Joseph_CugnotNicolas-Joseph Cugnot - Wikipedia

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   Engineer. Children. 2 children. Engineering career. Projects. fardier à vapeur. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Nicolas-Joseph-CugnotNicolas-Joseph Cugnot | Facts, Invention, & Steam Car

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   steam engine. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (born September 25, 1725, Void, France—died October 2, 1804, Paris) was a French military engineer who designed and built the world’s first true automobile —a huge, heavy, steam -powered tricycle. (Read James Watt’s 1819 Britannica essay on the steam engine.) After serving in the Austrian army in the ...

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   Jul 3, 2019 · Nicolas Joseph Cugnot's Steam Vehicles. In 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was a military tractor invented by French engineer and mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. He used a steam engine to power his vehicle, which was built under his instructions at the Paris Arsenal. The steam engine and boiler were separate from the rest of ...

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   Dec 11, 2012 · For historians who think that early steam-powered road vehicles fit the bill, the answer is Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French military engineer who in 1769 built a steam-powered tricycle for hauling ...

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   Sep 25, 2015 · Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot was born in Void-Vacon, Lorraine in 1725 and was trained as a military engineer. Cugnot was commissioned by the French War Ministry to develop a means of transport for the artillery. The steam engine based transport car developed by Cugnot was presented in Paris in 1769. The vehicle had two cylinders, the piston rods of ...

7. www.newworldencyclopedia.org › entry › NicolasNicolas-Joseph Cugnot - New World Encyclopedia

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   Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile, though this claim is disputed by some sources (some suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, as a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first ...

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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (born September 25, 1725, Void, France—died October 2, 1804, Paris) was a French military engineer who designed and built the world’s first true automobile —a huge, heavy, steam -powered tricycle.

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   When did fardier de Cugnot die?

   • Fardier de Cugnot, model of 1771. With the French Revolution, Cugnot's pension was withdrawn in 1789, and the inventor went into exile in Brussels, where he lived in poverty. Shortly before his death, he was invited back to France by Napoleon Bonaparte and returned to Paris, where he died on October 2, 1804.

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   What happened to Cugnot's road vehicles?

   • In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall, giving the inventor the distinct honor of being the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of his bad luck. After one of Cugnot's patrons died and the other was exiled, funding for Cugnot's road vehicle experiments dried up.

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   How did Cugnot make a steam locomotive?

   • For instance, Cugnot also designed two steam locomotives with engines that never worked well. These early systems powered cars by burning fuel that heated water in a boiler, creating steam that expanded and pushed pistons that turned the crankshaft, which then turned the wheels.

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9. fr.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nicolas_Joseph_CugnotNicolas Joseph Cugnot — Wikipédia

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   Biographie. Nicolas Joseph Cugnot est un ingénieur militaire français, né le 25 février 1725 1, N 1 à Void ( Meuse) en Lorraine, et mort le 2 octobre 1804 2 (à 79 ans) à Paris, connu pour avoir conçu et réalisé, entre 1769 et 1771, le premier véhicule automobile jamais construit dans le monde 3. Il s'agit d'un fardier d' artillerie ...