Grandpa Sam's Motor Car, Industrial Revolution, c. 1900
At first the automobile was a rare sight, a rich man's toy. Then, Henry Ford, through his use of the assembly line process, dramatically lowered the cost of production which made the price of ownership much more affordable. This democratization of automobile ownership sparked a new tradition- the Great American Road Trip!
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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