Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Media

• Fardier de Cugnot - start.webm

  Start of the Fardier (modern replica)

• Detail of driving mechanism (fardier drives in reverse)

• Cugnot's 1770 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris

• Engine of the Cugnot machine.jpg

  Engine part of Cugnot's 1770 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris

• Fardier a vapeur.gif

  The first known automobile accident