| NAME/COUNTRY | YEAR | DETAILS |
| NIKOLAUS OTTO, GERMANY | 1867 | Improved on the internal combustion engine. His engine is the first to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. |
| CARL BENZ, GERMANY | 1885 | Karl Benz built the first true automobile powered by a gasoline engine |
| GOTTLIEB WILHELM DAIMLER, WILHELM MAYBACH,GERMANY | 1886 | Invented the first four-wheeled, four-stroke engine in Germany. It is known as the “Cannstatt-Daimler |
| FRANK AND CHARLES EDGAR DURYEA | 1893 | Invented the first successful gas-powered car in the United States. |
| RENÉ PANHARD AND ÉMILE LEVASSOR, FRANCE | 1896 | First automobile manufacturers using the License from Daimler. They made true automobiles, not modified carriages. |
| MARQUIS DE DION, GEORGES BOUTON, FRANCE | 1883 | Formed the first French company to make Steam Cars in 1884 and gas cars in 1889 |
| CHARLES E. DURYEA AND J. FRANK DURYEA | 1892 | with creating the first successful American gasoline-powered automobile, in 1892–93 |