Back in the days of three-cornered hats and powdered wigs came the earliest-known self-propelled vehicle, a bizarre steam-powered contraption first demonstrated in France and called the Cugnot.
The year was 1770 and the Cugnot was at the time a technological marvel using the greatest of wagon-building innovation.
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