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Highlights in History of Engine Design – The Early Years

Posted Aug-11-16 at 12:00 AM By Jackie
Today, there are over one billion vehicles on the road, pretty amazing when you think about the fact that the first automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, rolled out of a shop barely 120 years ago. Still, vehicles weren’t widely distributed for a few years, until the advent of assembly-line vehicle fabrication, and then there was a veritable explosion of automobiles on the roads. That explosion started way before even the Ford Model A and the Benz’s Motorwagen, the internal combustion engine b [...more]

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Posted in: Car history Tags: engine history