Karl Benz was not a scientist he was an engineer. Henry Ford to my knowledge received no formal college education and in fact chose doing mechanical work over running the family farm. The guy who invented the battery in Henry Ford's model T did so with only a 6th grade education, which was much different than a 6th grade education today considering most people received no formal education past the 8th grade. That would be Thomas Edison btw. I seem to recall that Alfred Russell Wallace started out as a novice bug collector while he was employed as a surveyor or maybe it was Henry Walter Bates. In fact it seems to me that a lot of the great scientific discoveries of those times were done novices such as ourselves. Either way it does not matter the fact is cars were invented by mechanics and engineers not scientists and the current scientific culture out there particularly in the case of those in the employ of our government is a far cry from what we have seen in years past.

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