Karl Benz patented the gasoline-operated motor car.
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Mercedes and Benz merged to form the brand name Mercedes-Benz.
The plastic shirt collar was patented in the US by Walter Hunt.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
George Selden filed for the first patent for a gasoline-driven automobile.
Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
