A small version of his three-wheeled fardier à vapeur ("steam dray ") was made and used in 1769 (a fardier was a massively built two-wheeled horse-drawn cart for transporting very heavy equipment, such as cannon barrels)

Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, 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, est un ingénieur militaire français connu pour avoir conçu et réalisé, entre 1769 et 1771, le premier véhicule automobile jamais construit dans le monde [3].

En 1769, l’ingénieur militaire Nicolas Cugnot construit le premier véhicule capable de s’affranchir de la traction animale. Une chaudière à vapeur alimente alternativement deux cylindres installés de part et d’autre d’une unique roue motrice.

The good general wanted the fardier to travel about 2.5 mph, a tall order in a world where the fastest horseless carriage went zero mph. In 1765, Cugnot set about experimenting with steam and fardier models. In 1769 Cugnot built a working full-sized version of his fardier a vapeur.

Dec 12, 2024 · In 1769, Cugnot successfully developed a small prototype of his steam-powered vehicle. The design was based on a fardier, a robust two-wheeled cart traditionally pulled by horses for hauling heavy equipment.

Nov 5, 2015 · Around 1770, approximately half a century before serious experimentation began on tracked locomotives, a French artillery officer named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot conceived the notion that a steam engine could replace the four horses needed to drag an artillery caisson.

Le fardier de Cugnot, créé en 11769 sous Louis XV, est le premier véhicule automobile de l'histoire. Découvrez le en action !

Le fardier a été conçu et construit en 1770-1771, après un premier essai en 1769, par l’ingénieur militaire français Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, né à Void (Meuse) en 1725 et mort à Paris en 1804.

The ancestry of the motor car goes back to 1769 and one Nicholas Joseph Cugnot. The French Government was desperate for an artillery tractor, something to pull these heavy items…. Cugnot answer was a fardier à vapeur or steam dray. Cugnot presented his Government with a 3-Wheel vehicle weighing almost 5 tons.

Apr 25, 2024 · He then made a small version of a three-wheeled fardier in 1769. In 1770, a full-size version of the fardier à vapeur was built, specified to be able to carry four tons and cover two lieue (7.8 km, or 4.8 miles) in one hour, a performance it never achieved in practice.