Completion of Ford Quadricycle

Date: June 4, 1896 • Location: Washington, United States

Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and also gives it a successful test run.

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.