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The electric car.
What is likely the first human-carrying electric vehicle with its own power source was tested along a Paris street in April 1881 by French inventor Gustave Trouvé. The first crude electric car was built in the 1830s but it was essentially a semi-functioning model.
The electric car was a direct competitor to gasoline powered vehicles until the 1920s when roads got better, people started driving further than the range of an electric car, and the world started finding major oil reserves.
For a lot of us, ourselves
I’ve known for a while that I’m older now than my Mom and Dad were when I was born, but the other day, I realised I actually have memories of them when they were younger than I am now. That’s proper weird to think about and really made me think I’m a lot older than I feel.
That said, my parents are older than I think too, they’re only a few years away from the age I remember my Nana and Grandad being
Jennifer Lopez
Escalators have been around since 1859, though they were called rotating stairs.