In Philadelphia, in 1792, a man named Oliver Evans applied for a patent on a steam land carriage. He called his steam carriage "oruktor amphibolos". Martini a 14th century painter, who was trained in engineering, also had the same idea. He designed on paper, a man-propelled carriage, which had four wheels. Each of these wheels was turned by a hand crank, which was hooked up with gearing. This was on the right track but the people doing the cranking would "die of exhaustion".
The really historical part of martini's design was the name, he called it the "automobile", coming from
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