Some Power strokes of automobiles history

• The Italians have designed the wind driven vehicles in 1335 and the name was Vigevano. 
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• The First Vehicle that was able to run on his own was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. You can see a duplicate of the original vehicle at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. 
• However it is believed that the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine was built by - Wilhelm Maybach in 1890. 
• Inventor of the modern automobile is Karl Benz as he Invented a four-stroke cycle gasoline engine in 1885. 
• As automobiles field is generally believed as a Male dominated sector but the first long distance automobile driver in the world Bertha Benz who was the wife of Karl Benz.