Originally Posted by
95coBraSVT
Oddly enough, Henry Ford is often credited with manufacturing the first automobile, yet he was not. He was simply the first one to actually put them onto an assembly line. He was also the one who came up with the concept of "an honest days pay for an honest days work".
Francois Duryea(sp?) was the first person to make an "automobile".
Also of note...Henry Ford also FAILED a few times before becoming successful with the Ford Motor Company. One of the companies he also started , yet sold his shares to was one which is about to go under....You might know of it...It's called "General Motors". Ever heard of it?
Weird, but true.....I'll have to dig out my Ford book again.
Im fairly certain that Karl Benz was the first person to manufacture an actual automobile in the way we regard them, as in with the internal combustion engine and whatnot.
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Karl Friedrich Benz, sometimes spelled as Carl, (November 16, 1844, Karlsruhe, – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in automobiles. In 1879 Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which he designed in 1878.