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| First Mercedes Benz from 1888 |
Here are three more first photos of historic events. The first one shows the first Mercedes Benz from 1888. It was actually a large tricycle, with a speed of probably 1 mph. The second photo shows the first four-wheel car, a quadricycle built by Ford, the forerunner of the Ford cars which amount to millions nowadays. Henry Ford himself is riding his invention, which would revolutionize transportation over the next few decades.
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| Henry Ford on his quadricycle in 1896 |
The last photo is the first ever photograph taken with a camera. It was taken in France in 1827 with a system called daguerreotype. In the past 190 years, photography has developed by leaps and bounds and now digital photography has made paper photos almost obsolete. However, old photos are nonetheless quite historic and priceless, as these three samples show. And thankfully we can now scan them and share them with millions around the world, as I'm doing right now.
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| View from a window at Le Gras, France in 1827, the earliest surviving camera photograph |
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