What Was The First Car?
Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first
was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and
thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never
built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with
tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels.
A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been...
