The Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest who, around 1670, developed a small steam-powered trolley. Nicholas Joseph Cugnot certainly deserves a mention. In 1770 he built his farrier à vapeur (steam dray), a self-propelled artillery carriage for the French army. This hefty three-wheeler was certainly a car in the loosest sense; more significantly, it was involved in the world's first recorded car crash, when it ran out of control at its heady top speed of 2mph and demolished a wall. The farrier survives to this day. Friday, August 24, 2007
Fr. Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. Inventor Of Steam Powered Trolley
The Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest who, around 1670, developed a small steam-powered trolley. Nicholas Joseph Cugnot certainly deserves a mention. In 1770 he built his farrier à vapeur (steam dray), a self-propelled artillery carriage for the French army. This hefty three-wheeler was certainly a car in the loosest sense; more significantly, it was involved in the world's first recorded car crash, when it ran out of control at its heady top speed of 2mph and demolished a wall. The farrier survives to this day. 
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