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John Burroughs and Henry Ford in the first automobile (Quadricycle) designed and built by Mr. Ford. Image is from the American Museum Journal in 1915.
On June 4th, 1896 Ford completed his Quadricycle.
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Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.
When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.
Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did.
