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Automobile Industry In The 1800s

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The mid 1800s was a period of great industrial growth. There was an abundance of raw materials, a large growing labor supply, a surge in technological innovation, the emergence of talented entrepreneurs, a federal government eager to assist the growth of business, and an expanding domestic market for manufactured products. Of the many important innovations, the automobile and the airplane are the most important. The automobile came about after the creation of gasoline (or petrol) and a self-contained engine. By the 1870s inventors in France, Germany, and Austria had begun to develop internal combustion engines which used the expanding power of burning gas to drive pistons. The American automobile industry developed shortly after they European
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