Discover how the first cars were made at the new Riverside Museum
What links a horse-drawn carriage and car? The new Riverside Museum in Glasgow, opening in 2011, will show off the city's definitive collection of Scottish cars. Curator Alex Robertson describes the coachbuilding display which explains how the men who built horse-drawn carriages turned their hand to constructing the first motor cars. Visit www.riversideappeal.org
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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