The human quest to conquer space and
time is as old as civilization. Throughout the nineteenth century
and early twentieth century several inventors in America and Europe
experimented with an elusive engine that could run on the road. However
when Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler independently invented the internal
combustion engine, the stage was set for producing viable cars. It took Henry Ford to systematically
improvise and standardize car design, and herald the era of mass
production in the automotive industry through the use of assembly-line techniques.
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