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On January 29, 1886 Karl Benz applied for a German patent for his Benz Patent-Motorwagen, eventually receiving patent number 37435 . This patent is widely regarded as the world’s first patent for a purpose built automobile.
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During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
