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Originally Posted by CunningStunt
2. I disagree, I believe it should go from smallest to largest - day / month / year. Why should it go month, day, year?
1. You seem to be under the mistaken belief that Henry Ford invented the motor car.
Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in the year 1672. It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam. Ferdinand was an experimentalist and a missionary to China. He built his car in China. Hence you could rightly say, the first ever car was made in China.
In 1769, the first self-propelled car was designed and built by Nicholas Cugnot. His model of car was a three-wheeler.
Francois Isaac Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, designed and invented the first ever car with an internal combustion engine. This car engine was fueled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. This car was made in 1806. However, this design was not a success.
The car models designed and built by Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey and Etienne Lenoir were also a failure.
In 1881, Gustave Trouve not only designed and invented the first ever car powered by electricity but also demonstrated the functioning of this automobile at an International Exhibition of Electricity in Paris.
Four years later in 1885, Karl Benz designed and built a car powered by gasoline. This car was made in Germany. This was the first ever car to be granted a patent in 1886. The rest is history and the world acknowledged Karl Benz as the "Inventor of the modern automobile". He also invented the first ever car with an internal combustion flat engine in 1896.
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Thanks for lesson and I do know he was not the first, did not say it in my post either.
I give ford credit for the assembly line and the BBQ briquette. His car was also the most sold and most popular. He gets credit for getting peoples asses in the seat and using them. Therefore he gets to write the guide and operational manual for them - which can dictate what side of the road to drive on.
Yeah reality is we had side walks and people used horses a lot still. The middle of the roads often were muddy and covered in horse crap. Nobody wanted to get out in horse shit and people who had cars had drivers. So you drive on a given side so your passengers can get in and out without getting horse shit and mud on you. At least I think that is why.