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The Invention of the Car

A French engineer's steam wagon crashes into a wall in 1769. A German engineer named Karl Benz builds the first true car in 1886 — then his wife Bertha secretly drives it 66 miles with a hairpin and a garter, inventing the road trip (and the gas station) by accident. Plus how Henry Ford's assembly line made cars for everyone.

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