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Engineering Yesterday and Today

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Very late in the nineteenth century, a wide variety of new products emerged, which play important roles in today’s society. For example, 1886 was regarded as the birth year of the modern car when German inventor Karl Benz patented Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

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Correspondence to Shuichi Fukuda .

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Fukuda, S. (2019). Engineering Yesterday and Today. In: Self Engineering. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26725-4_2

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