Who invented the automobile?
Who Invented The Automobile? Wednesday February 25, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)At the risk of sounding like President Clinton, it depends in large part on how you define “automobile” and “invention.” In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama indirectly and incorrectly asserted that the automobile was invented in America: I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it. Was the automobile invented in America? Short answer: no. The Library of Congress credits German Karl Benz (of Mercedes-Benz) with inventing the “first true automobile” (one that had an internal combustion engine). That happened in 1885. However, the Library of Congress also notes that “[t]he history of the automobile is ver
