WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Horace E Dodge
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Louis Chevrolet
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Karl Benz
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Henry Ford
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Karl Benz was a German mechanical engineer who designed and, in 1885, built the world’s first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Detailed explanation-3: -As early as 1863, Belgian inventor Étienne Lenoir had driven his “hippomobile” the nine kilometres from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont and back. It was powered by Lenoir’s own gas engine and fuelled by a turpentine derivative-thus earning it the distinction of the first vehicle with an internal combustion engine.