Thread: "America invented the automobile" - Obama
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Old 02-25-2009, 11:04 AM  
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Originally Posted by Darkland View Post
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."
If you wanna go THERE then why not Ferdinand Verbiest?
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