Ford Didn't Invent The Car | WheelHouse | Donut Media

The story of the automobile is not one of instant gratification and overnight success, turns out a lot of failure laid the groundwork for the modern automobile. Join Nolan Sykes as he examines the strange machines that predated the car, and why they didn’t work out. From Ferdinand Verbiest’s steam cart, to the totally metal-sounding Puffing Devil of Richard Trevithick. These are the “not-cars” before cars.

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[Devnci]

Ford invented neither the car nor the production line. He was a clever businessman who united 2 existing ideas.

[quillmaurer]

So we're all driving cars now because a woman "borrowed" her husband's "useless" contraption? Not sure if she was the most supportive wife ever, seeing potential in her husband's idea when he didn't believe in it so she went to show the whole world what he'd made, or if she just wanted a more convenient way to visit her mom and figured this contraption was the easiest way to do so, but either way she's a total badass.

[Funtimes]

What is amazing to me, is how quickly we went from barely having an automobile, to flight, and then space in such a short time, when humans spent thousands of years on foot or wagons!

[spike]

Who tf thinks that Ford invented the car? Lol

[ErikCrowKrahe]

When I was a young lad in grade school I used to argue with kids that Karl Benz invented the first car and not Henry Ford, all the American kids were taught Ford Propaganda. My Father was raised in Stuttgart so I was indoctrinated with the teachings of Karl Benz at a very young age. We never owned any Mercedes but I remember being absolutely enthralled with any thing Mercedes. Still love the cars.

[InfamousAMH]

The first patented car was made by Karl Benz. It was called the “Benz Patent Motorcar”

[ClapOnNova]

Puffing Devil is what we used to call my dad

[ThomasZadro]

Once my brother in law - a Brazilian - told me, when we were driving around in Stuttgart: „But Ford invented the car.“ I tried to keep calm, turned the car around, drove him to the part of Stuttgart, where Gottlieb Daimler built (and invented in parallel to Benz) the first car together with Maybach, forced him out of my car, told him to enter the small cabin where one can see some remains of Daimler‘s workshop, shouted at him: „And now, the fuck, you will stand still between the busts of Daimler and Maybach, I take a picture and if you ever again dare to say, that Ford invented the car, I will fly over to Brazil and make you eat one of those!“

Did not hear back from him for a while :-)

[johnjuiceshipper]

Hey, it's me again, asking if you guys are going to make a video on the daily drivers of the Donut Media team. I'll keep commenting it on every video until I either get a confirmation or James shows up to my front door and pays me to stop commenting.

[professormetal]

I've never been taught Henry Ford invented the car, I've always been told he invented the Assembly Line.

[jackhromadka]

The steam driven cart of 1769 is part of train history, weirdly. The only reason is because it was the first steam driven vehicle, technically. Because of this, Richard Trevithick made the Puffing Devil in 1801, then 3 years after he made the first Steam Locomotive (Train), an important part of railroading history.

[axel]

Do a history on electric cars...they are as old as ford

[amandeepsvlogs]

Literally no one:
Donut media: Ford wasn’t the first car
Everyone knows lol

[williamgeorge]

Lmao *this is not footage from 1769* yeah no shit

[zaksrdanovich]

Ford just industrialized it and made it cheap

[hornback]

"... unveiled his puffing devil, which wasn't his bong..."
I almost spit out my bourbon.

[vaggelispapadimitriou]

Already knew this because of gran turismo 4. And then parents say that video games are not educational. Bullshit

[littlecatholicman]

Bertha a badass, GTA'd that shit on the longest road trip in history AND fixed the carburetor in the middle of it.

[DeeZeeGR]

Next on how safety become standard for cars

[orzorzelski]

1815, Józef Bożek, steam powered car: could carry 3 passangers, rear wheel drive, four wheels, wooden brakes on all wheels, carried passangers around Prague for TWO YEARS.