Charles H. Black (October 5, 1850 – August 19, 1918) was an American carriage wagon maker and automobile leader whose business was in Indianapolis, Indiana. As a skilled blacksmith craftsman and designer of carriage wagons, he was led into the idea of making a self propelled vehicle that would run under its own power. Black first produced a steam engine self powered vehicle. He improved on this technology and, in 1891, produced a vehicle that used a single-cylinder 18 horsepower gasoline engine. He drove this vehicle around Indianapolis for twenty years as his own personal car.