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The motorwagen created by Karl Benz in 1895.

While many people are given credit for having had a hand in inventing the modern automobile, German engineer Karl Benz invented the first “ motorwagen ” in 1895. Ever since this groundbreaking invention, there has been a group of men and women who have become a necessary part of keeping the world moving: auto mechanics. Of course, these mechanics also work on trucks, buses, and other types of vehicles. While Benz’s invention led to the first people who worked on cars, the history of the mechanic occupation actually goes much further back than the end of the nineteenth century. As long as there have been machines, there have been people who fix them. Machines break, and they will do so even faster without proper care. Mechanics are men and women with knowledge of tools, engineering , and technology who build, repair, and care for our machines. Since the spread of the automobile in the United States and in other countries, mechanics have taken on a special and important role in the lives

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