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Aktuell · 22.07.2026 10:02

When the World Picked Up Speed

On July 22, 1894, the first motorized competition vehicles traveled from Paris to Rouen. Exactly 39 years later, Wiley Post circumnavigated the globe alone by airplane. Two events that changed our idea of distance…

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