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    The Wheels of Invention

    Sep 01, 2020 3 minutes
    by Richard Young, art by Rupert van Wyk

    1478 Winding Up

    The award for Earliest Known Drawing of a Working Car goes to the artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci. He probably meant it to be a large wooden wind-up toy for a bored king, not a serious ride. It was only three feet long and had no seat.

    1672 Steaming Ahead

    The first real motorized carts ran on steam power. Ferdinand Verbiest was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer working at the court of the emperor of China. He also

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