This Day in History: 1896-06-04

Ford Quadracycle first tested on this day in 1896. Although not the first horseless carriage built in the US or Europe, Ford would go on to dominate the auto industry by applying mass production techniques to serve the largest possible market.
In his biography, My Life and Work Ford talks about his “gasoline buggy,” although, like other automotive engineers of the era (including Kettering, Diesel and Ricardo), Ford advocated the use of renewable ethanol from farm crops and cellulose.