Injuries in Traffic Accidents
- 11 May 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 276 (19) , 1066-1076
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196705112761905
Abstract
THE first vehicle to move under its own power was a steam tractor built by Cugnot in France in 1769. A century later Siegfried Markus built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, in Vienna, around 1870. However, Markus made only 4 cars, 1 of which survives to this day. It was Benz, in 1885, who made the first motorcar to be produced in appreciable numbers.2 Only eight years later the first recorded collision between motor vehicles occurred at Auteuil, France, in 1893, when Baron De Zuylen drove his horseless carriage into Count De Dion's motor brake. Apparently, . . .Keywords
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