Metal cars

==History==
In 1765 the Flemish missionary Ferdinand Verbiest drove the first steam-powered car through Peking. It had four wheels and a water boiler that was heated by an open coal fire and was therefore driven by a turbine wheel.\nIn 1769 the French inventor Joseph Cugnot built a steam car which, if occupied by four people, could reach a speed of 2.48 mph until its steam boiler was empty.\nBrackenburg constructed the first automobile using an internal combustion engine invented by Lenoir in 1863.\nHowever, when the Germans Maybach, Daimler and Benz built the first vehicles with gasoline engines in 1886, a real 'car-mania' broke out which also affected the toy industry.\nEvery little boy suddenly wanted to have a miniature metal car of his own to be able to race through the garden or children´s room.
==Did You Know That?==
The invention of the car is causing a real obsession with motion. Anything possessing wheels is a thousand times more interesting than anything without wheels.\nThis doesn't just apply to the world of adults and public transport, but also to toys. Small steel cars are replacing old-fashioned wooden trains in boys' hearts.\nMiniature cars can be seen racing from one corner of the living room floor to another. Be careful you don't fall over them!\n
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