Audio Transcript

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.