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  2. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    However, cars with front-wheel drive were made several years earlier in road cars produced by Alvis and Cord as well as in racing cars by Miller (and may have appeared as early as 1897). In the same vein, the independent suspension was initially developed by Amédée Bollée in 1873, but not put in production until the low-volume Mercedes-Benz ...

  3. Benz Patent-Motorwagen - Wikipedia

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    The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile [1] [a] and was the first car put into production. [8] It was patented in January 1886 and unveiled in public later that year.

  4. Timeline of motor vehicle brands - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.

  5. Category:Cars by year of introduction - Wikipedia

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  6. John William Lambert - Wikipedia

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    1891: the first workable American gasoline car, made by John W. Lambert Lambert 1901 experimental automobile John Lambert and his brothers in 1902 in a Union Automobile Lambert 1907 automobile advertisement with the friction transmission featured in it. Lambert Automobile Company, 1908. Lambert had more than 600 inventions. [3] [4] [5]

  7. Carl Benz - Wikipedia

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    Benz began to sell the vehicle (advertising it as "Benz Patent-Motorwagen") in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history. The second customer of the Motorwagen was a Parisian bicycle manufacturer [ 15 ] Emile Roger , who had already been building Benz engines under license from Benz for several years.

  8. Timeline of North American automobiles - Wikipedia

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    Chrysler Turbine Car (1963-1964) Ford 300 (1963) Ford Ranch Wagon (1963-1964) Mercury Marauder (1963–1965) Plymouth Valiant (1963-1966) Rambler Classic (1963-1964) Studebaker Super Lark Custom R2 (1963) Studebaker Daytona Wagonaire (1963-1964) Studebaker Wagonaire (1963-1966)

  9. Timeline of transportation technology - Wikipedia

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    The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014). Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014). Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 ...