# Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

> He built a steam-powered wagon in 1769 that could move under its own power — no horses, no rails — making him the builder of what's arguably the first automobile, a century before the internal combustion engine.

*French inventor (1725–1804)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/nicolas-joseph-cugnot

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1725-02-26
- **Died:** 1804-10-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born on 26 February 1725 in France. He designed and constructed the "Fardier à vapeur," the world's first full-size, working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle. The machine ran on steam and moved without external power — a functional automobile before the concept had a name. He died on 2 October 1804, having demonstrated that a vehicle could carry itself forward by its own engine decades before anyone else managed it at scale.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 53.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 21.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Other, #Science, #France, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

## Sources
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