A car The first known drawings of the car (with a spring drive) belong to Leonardo da Vinci. In 1769, French inventor Kyuno tested the first sample of the machine with a steam engine and gave it the name "Fire wagon." In 1791, the Russian inventor Ivan Kulibin was made "Samokatnaya wagon." In 1885, a German inventor Gottlieb Daimler, and in 1886 his compatriot Karl Benz produced and patented the first self-propelled carriages with gasoline engines. In 1900 Ferdinand Porsche designed the electric vehicle with four-wheel drive, which houses leading to an electric motor. Major contribution to the widespread road transport introduced American inventor and industrialist Henry Ford, from 1913 to infiltrate a conveyor system assembly of automobiles. In 1923, the company produced the first Benz truck with a diesel engine.