Friday 16th May 1862

Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir built the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine. He had adapted his two-stroke cycle engine to run on liquid fuel and with his vehicle made a 6-mile (10-kilometre) trip that took two to three hours to complete. His other inventions include an electric brake for trains (1855), a motorboat using his engine (1886), and a method of tanning leather with ozone.