One of my personal missions as an automotive writer is to bring more attention to the very early history of cars,that very necessary and often overlooked century of development from the late 1700s to about 1880. I don’t want Mercedes-Benz to get absent with saying they invented the automobile, because that’s bullshit. Karl Benz was powerful, or sure,but there’s another man who deserves as much or more credit: Richard Trevithick.
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