| Before cars were around, people usually
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| | These improvements not only made
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| traveled distances using horse-drawn
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| | automobiles more stylish, but also safer
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| carriages. But as early as 1335 several
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| | and more comfortable for both passengers
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| bright minds have been trying to come up
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| | and drivers. Driving was slowly becoming
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| with a "horseless carriage". In
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| | more pleasurable.
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| Italy there were quite a number of
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| | Apart from increased comfort and
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| designs for wind-driven vehicles, none of
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| | security, another important
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| which were ever built. Leonardo da Vinci
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| | characteristic of cars that became
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| designed a clockwork vehicle, but that
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| | emergent during this period was the
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| too remained just a concept. In America
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| | increase in durability and affordability.
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| there were two prominent figures who
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| | Automobile manufacturers like Ford,
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| would be remembered as forefathers of the
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| | Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Buick,
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| modern automobile--Ransom E. Olds and
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| | Plymouth, and Oldsmobile were
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| Henry Ford. Olds was the first mass
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| | mass-producing durable cars on assembly
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| producer of gasoline-powered automobiles
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| | lines, which made it possible for more
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| in America, while Ford built several
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| | people to travel around at an affordable
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| prototypes and began selling cars in
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| | price. In addition, smaller companies
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| 1903.
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| | began producing specific car components,
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| However, these cars were really nothing
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| | adding to the ease of production and
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| more than crude horseless carriages, and
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| | sustainability, and further lowering
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| they looked a lot like them too--the open
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| | prices, which in turn increased the
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| body, the large, wooden wheels all
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| | popularity of the automobile as the
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| screamed "carriage without a
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| | preferred mode of travel for everyone.
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| horse". But by 1916 certain
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| | As the automobile's popularity rose, so
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| developments enabled these carriages to
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| | did the number of manufacturing
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| become viable means of transportation,
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| | companies. Some experimented with
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| with better mechanics, increased power
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| | electricity and steam--and electricity is
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| and efficiency, and most of all, safety
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| | still being experimented with to this
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| and comfort.
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| | day--but internal combustion engines were
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| During the 1916-1924 period, most
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| | clearly preferred with Packard's
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| automobile designs have improved
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| | development of the V-12. Other
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| drastically. The dangerous hand crank was
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| | manufactureres produced V-8s and V-16s,
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| replaceed with electric starters, and
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| | and by the end of this period the market
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| kerosene lanterns were replaced by
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| | had hundreds of manufacturers each
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| electric lighting. Enclosed bodies were
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| | producing several hundred different
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| also becoming more popular, and the
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| | models, with a variety of engine
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| windows can be raised or lowered at will.
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| | configurations.
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