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Which came first, the car or Nintendo?

Which came first, the car or Nintendo?
the car
1886 — 3 years before Nintendo

the car came first, by 3 years. Karl Benz patented the Motorwagen.

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the car Nintendo
Year 1886 1889
Date 1886-01-29 1889-09-23
Category invention company
What happened Karl Benz patented the Motorwagen. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

the car

Benz's patent of 29 January 1886 is the usual date for the first practical petrol car. The vehicle's commercial breakthrough came from his wife: in 1888 Bertha Benz drove 106 km to Pforzheim without telling him, fixing the fuel line with a hatpin and the ignition with a garter on the way, and the resulting publicity sold the machine. Ford did not exist until 1903 and the Model T not until 1908.

Nintendo

Nintendo was founded in 1889 to make handmade hanafuda cards, and it was a playing-card company for about eighty years. It is older than the Ford Motor Company (1903), older than the aeroplane, older than the Eiffel Tower by five months, and older than the modern Olympic Games. Before settling on video games in the 1970s it tried taxis, instant rice and a chain of love hotels.

Common questions

Which came first, the car or Nintendo?
the car, by 3 years — 1886 against 1889.
When did the car start?
1886. Karl Benz patented the Motorwagen.
When did Nintendo start?
1889. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

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Sources

  1. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Smithsonian Institution
  2. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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