The invention of the automobile is a result of years of research and a combination of technologies that was done over time. The first working steam-powered vehicle was said to have been designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member who belonged to the Jesuit mission in China around the year 1672. The credit for the invention of the first self-propelled automobile has been given to Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in the year 1769. It is also said that Nicephore Niepce as well as his brother had created the world’s first internal combustion engine, which they named as Pyreolophore.
However, Henry Ford eventually made automobiles commercial by making them more affordable and competitive. He was the one who expanded the idea of mass production of cars in the year 1914. Gradually, by 1920 most of the world’s cars were mass produced and the ideas of Alfred P. Sloan helped to produce varying makes of a car that enabled buyers to purchase higher models as their income increased.
