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America Builds Cars

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Though Karl Benz created the modern automobile in the late 19th century, it took Ransom Olds and Henry Ford to begin large-scale production in the 20th.

Photo: William Vandivert./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1938
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