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Old 02-25-2009, 10:04 AM  
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Originally Posted by ADL Colin View Post
According to the American "Library of Congress" there is not a straightforward answer
though if you had to give credit to one inventor it would be "Karl Benz".

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html
Why Carl Benz? The first known "automobile" was a steam run creation of French inventor Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. If we were being "combustion engine" specific then yes it would be Benz, but we are talking about the first "automobile."
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