The history of cars is more complicated than you would think, and the timeline stretches back to the late 1600s when a dutch physicist designed the very first internal combustion engine. A year later, benz received the first patent (drp no 1, is regarded as the first automobile (patent no On january 29, 1886, karl benz, a german engineer, became the first person to patent a successful gasoline powered automobile. The first civilian passenger car built since february 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the ford motor company plant in detroit, mi Automotive production had been diverted to military production for the war (wwii) effort.
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