Hippomobile

Automobile invented by Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir in 1863 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hippomobile

The Hippomobile is an early, three wheeled automobile invented by Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir in France in 1863 which carried its own internal combustion engine. It was based on his 1860 invention, the Lenoir gas engine.

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Lenoir Hippomobile
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Lenoir gas engine, 1860

History

In 1863, the Hippomobile, with a coal gas fueled, one-cylinder internal combustion engine, made a test drive from Paris, France to Joinville-le-Pont, which covered around eleven miles in less than three hours, which was a fair achievement at the time.[1][2]

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