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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1725-02-26 ) 26 February 1725, Void-Vacon , Lorraine, France
- Died
- 2 October 1804 (1804-10-02) (aged 79), Paris , France
- Projects
- fardier à vapeur
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of death
- Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, monument à Void (Lorraine) en 1912 (du au meusien Fosse, sur fonds anglais).jpg
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- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
- date of death
- 1804-10-02
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- name in native language
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
- date of birth
- 1725-02-26
- has works in the collection
- Musée des Arts et Métiers
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.