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When did motor vehicles first appear?


(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-18 15:09
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A: Daimler's wire-wheel car was the first automobile shown at a World Fair, in this case the 1889 Paris Expo. The first vehicle to use four wire-wheels, it was taken to the expo by Gottlieb Daimler. A new V-type engine was installed capable of firing 600 rounds per minute, which created the equivalent of 2 horsepower. Daimler's invention was considered a key milestone in the development of the automobile.

Seventeen years later, the first car museum was founded for the Milan Expo in 1906, effectively taking the world into a new era.

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