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Who Invented the Car? The History of the Automobile
The car wasn't invented by one person — it was a race! Travel from Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's 1769 steam vehicle to the internal combustion engine and Karl Benz's 1886 patent for the first officially recognized automobile.
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