THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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Electric Lightbulb
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Telephone
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Automobile
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Airplane
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Detailed explanation-1: -Karl Benz patented all of the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in cars. Karl Benz and his wife, Bertha Ringer Benz, were the founders of the Mercedes Benz automobile manufacturing company.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. In July 1886 the newspapers reported on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, historians generally credit the Benz Motorwagen, built in Germany by engineer Karl Benz in 1885, with being the first self-propelled vehicle designed around the internal combustion engine.