# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-joseph-cugnot
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:45.285Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.