In the year 1908 Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car

Henry Ford was serious about creating a low-cost automobile, something that modern automakers don't seem to care about. The automobile era began on August 12, 1908, when the first Ford T model car was assembled in Detroit's Piquette Avenue Park.
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Vikram Sarabhai was an Indian physicist and astronomer who pioneered space exploration and assisted in the country's development of nuclear power in 1919.

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), also known as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger

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