Right from the nineteenth century’s beginning; scientists in America had been trying to create a steam car. Pick up a newspaper from those times, and you’ll find stories and reposts about how someone tried, tried really hard – but failed to make the steam car work.

Then, towards the end of the century, things changed. By 1890 a man named Ransom E. Olds had already built his second steam powered car; one of the two he built was sold to someone in India, but the ship transporting it there was, unfortunately, lost at sea. Then it began. In the February of 1893, the brother’s car built by Charles and Frank Duryea made the first gasoline powered car ever, right here in the United States, and by September of the same year 1893, it was prepared for its road trials.