Pe urmele automobilului Văsescu

Abstract

Born in Iasi in 1863, engineer Dumitru Vasescu is the first Romanian who designed and produced the first Romanian steam car, characterized as “the most perfect car of that time”. Vasescu built the vehicle in Paris and it could be seen, at first, on the streets of the great capital, representing the sensation of the time. In 1906, the constructor brought its invention to Bucharest and was exhibited at the museum of the National School of Bridges and Roads of Bucharest, and on the 10th of May 1906, he became a tenured professor, until his premature death on the 29th of October 1909, because of tuberculosis.