The car industry represents the epitome of incremental innovation. Take a tricycle. Add an engine. You've got a car. (Just look at the picture of the the original Benz Motorwagen from 1885).
Condensing the invention of cars to those six words leaves out a lot of detail and a few main characters.
It was Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach who designed the first four-wheel car with a four-stroke engine and Henry Ford who perfected the assembly line.
But the long story short is that the car was a typical "invention" that was far too complicated for one person to conceive on his won.
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