| − | The '''automobile''', or '''car''', was invented in the 19th century by [[Karl Friedrich Benz]], a [[Germany|German]] engineer. But it was [[Henry Ford]], an [[American]], who made the automobile popular by mass-producing it on the world's first moving automotive [[assembly line]] in [[Detroit]], which became the "Automobile Capital of the World" in the 1950s. | + | The '''automobile''', or '''car''', was invented in the 1885 by [[Karl Friedrich Benz]], a [[Germany|German]] engineer. But it was [[Henry Ford]], an [[American]], who made the automobile popular by mass-producing it on the world's first moving automotive [[assembly line]] in [[Detroit]], which became the "Automobile Capital of the World" in the 1950s. |
| | Cars use an internal combustion engine. Cars use roads in order to transport travelers from one place to another (compare [[train]]s). | | Cars use an internal combustion engine. Cars use roads in order to transport travelers from one place to another (compare [[train]]s). |