Who built the first automobile?

Gottlieb Daimler and his assistant William Maybach had perfected a four-cycle internal-combustion engine by 1885 and had built four experimental vehicles by 1889. Karl Benz built his first car in 1886 and by 1891 had developed the automobile to the stage of commercial feasibility. In France, Emile Constant Levassor created the basic mechanical arrangement of the modern motorcar in 1891 by placing the engine in front of the chassis, making it possible to accommodate larger, more powerful engines. Charles E. Duryea and J. Frank Duryea of Springfield, Mass., were bicycle mechanics who built their first car in 1893 after reading a description of the Benz car in Scientific American four years earlier, in 1889.

Hello, I show that George A. Long invented the "Steam Road Vehicle" as he was awarded patent number: 281,091 (by the U.S.P.O.) on July 10, 1883. It is the oldest, self-propelled vehicle in the Smithsonian's collection. It is the second automobile that was built by Long, the first being in 1875 (not patented, but much referenced in local newspaper accounts).

Believe that your dates are all of the post-Long, era.

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