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Double-decker buses have been running in Mumbai for about 86 years. Gradually these buses became an important means of transport. A large number of people started traveling in these.
Unlike many other major inventions, the original idea of the automobile cannot be attributed to a single individual. The idea certainly occurred long before it was first recorded in the Iliad, in which Homer (in Alexander Pope’s translation) states that Vulcan in a single day made 20 tricycles, which Leonardo da Vinci considered the idea of a self-propelled vehicle in the 15th century. In 1760 a Swiss clergyman, J.H. Genevois, suggested mounting small windmills on a cartlike vehicle, their power to be used to wind springs that would move the road wheel. Genevois’s idea probably derived from a windmill cart
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Seeking the answer to the question When were cars
invented? uncovers quite a few notable and surprising
developments in the history of Intellectual Property (IP).
While some nations are more automobile-dependent than others
(particularly the United States), it is still difficult to imagine
how our modern world would function without cars. They should,
without a doubt, be ranked among the most important inventions in
all of human history. No wonder automobile-related patents account
for a major share of the world s overall IP library.
Many believe 1886 to be the specific year cars were invented