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Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, built the first steam-powered vehicle around 1672, designed as a toy for the Chinese Emperor, it being of small scale and unable to carry a driver or passenger but, quite possibly, the first working steam-powered vehicle ('auto-mobile').

The invention of the first practical automobile is credited to Karl Benz of Germany. He invented the Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1885.

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