Happy 125th, Car!

[MaximumSpeed]

Today, January 29, is the 125th Anniversary of the Automobile! There were two cars, actually. The article mentions more specifics, including their locations and creators:

Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that day in 1886, the same year Gottlieb Daimler completed his motorized carriage in Cannstatt, Germany.

Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110129/CARNEWS/301299999#ixzz1CU1APuEW

It's an interesting article. Where would we be without cars?

 

[LDriver]

That's wonderful! I have always thought it was Ford who invented the first automobile.
I think the 18th and the 19th centuries were the golden years of invention. So much of today's technology started between these times.