Božek was the name attached to the first self-propelled vehicle built in the territory of what was then Austria-Hungary, a steam car constructed in 1815 by Josef Božek. It placed him among the world's earliest builders of such vehicles, after Cugnot in Paris in 1769, Trevithick in London in 1801 and Evans in Philadelphia in 1813. Božek lived from 28 February 1782 to 21 October 1835. He studied at the…
