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What's the earliest era in which people could reverse engineer a car?
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07-25-2015, 08:41 PM
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The closest thing I found (historically) to an ICE after a cursory search was the gunpowder engine of Christiaan Huygens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_engine
This was the late 1600's. With a model to go off of I'll say the late 1500's.
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