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In the United States, internal-combustion cars of the horseless buggy sort were manufactured in the 1890s by Charles Duryea and J. Frank Duryea, Elwood Haynes, Henry Ford, Ransom E. Olds, and Alexander Winton. Many of the early engines had just one cylinder, with a series-and-sprocket drive on wood carriage wheels. The cars generally were open, accommodated two passengers, and were steered by a lever. Steam engines, which had been once extra widespread than gasoline engines, have been experimented with as a result of they provide off fewer noxious emissions; they’re, nonetheless, much less efficient than inner-combustion engines.

However, despite this …