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History of The Automobile
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Contrary to the beliefs of some, Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. Ford's importance to the automotive industry was that he was the inventor of the automobile assembly line. Here, we will examine the history of automobiles in general.

Karl Benz of Mecedes-Benz fame was the inventor of the first modern automobile in 1885 or 1886. While Benz' new automobile was nothing like the automobiles we drive today, it was the first gasoline powered automobile driven by an internal combustion engine. Karl Benz' first automobile was a three-wheeled unit.

Prior to Benz' automobile, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first self-propelled motor vehicle in all of history. Cugnot's vehicle was a steam-powered, three-wheeled tractor that was made exclusively for the French military. The maximum speed on this unit was 2.5 mph.

During the 1830's, Robert Anderson developed an electric carriage in Scotland.

Shortly after the release of the Benz three-wheeled automobile, Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach released a four-wheeled vehicle called the Cannstatt-Daimler.

In 1895, George Baldwin Selden was granted a patent in the United States for a carriage that had an integrated internal combustion engine. Although Seldon never actually manufactured an automobile, he did collect royalties from American automakers on his patent.

Duryea automobile (1893)

Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank Duryea produced the first American-made automobile starting in 1893. Their vehicle included a gasoline-powered, two-stroke motor that generated 4hp.

Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903. They introduced the assembly line to their Highland Park plant (in Michigan, US), in 1913. The first Ford vehicle was sold one month after the founding of Ford Motor Company. That first vehicle was sold to a doctor who lived in Detroit.

Ford began producing and naming cars, by letters of the alphabet, from their inception in 1903. The Model T sold more than 15 million units between 1908 and 1927.

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The Death of a Great American Automobile
There was a time when Oldsmobile was about to overtake Chevrolet and Ford as the best selling car in America... Until... The success of Oldsmobile caused a shortage of equipment that led General Motors to make one of the most notorious business mistakes in United States history.

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