Industrial Age · North America · Technology

1896

Ford Builds First Quadricycle

1896

In a brick shed behind his rented Detroit house, the thirty-two-year-old Henry Ford ran a horseless carriage on four bicycle wheels out into the summer night. It needed a doorway widened to get out. He sold it for two hundred dollars to finance more experiments. Seven years later he would found the company that bore his name.

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Also in 1896 (7 other events on record)
Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.