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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German engineer Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile [1] [a] and was the first car put into production. [8] It was patented in January 1886 and unveiled in public later that year.
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Viktoria is a car that was produced by Benz and Cie. from 1893 to 1900. [1] ... located in the car museum of Einbeck, is street-legal in ...
He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. [2] His company Benz & Cie., based in Mannheim, was the world's first automobile plant and largest of its day. [3] In 1926, it merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz, which produces the Mercedes-Benz among ...
The Ford Motor Company fought this patent in court, [40] and eventually won on appeal. Henry Ford testified that the patent did more to hinder than encourage development of autos in the United States. [41] The first automobiles were produced by Carl Benz in 1888 in Germany and, under license from Benz, in France by Emile Roger.
The 1966 Volkswagen Beetle.It is the all-time best-selling car with only a single body style. Since the introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1886, some passenger cars and light trucks can claim to being the highest selling vehicles in the automobile markets.
Bertha Benz at age 18, c. 1867 Cäcilie Bertha Ringer was born on 3 May 1849 to a wealthy carpenter family in Pforzheim.She was the third of nine children. Her father, Karl Friedrich Ringer, a master builder and carpenter, and her 20 year younger mother, Auguste Friedrich, were wealthy individuals who invested heavily in their children's educations.
Unknown to Otto, Daimler, and Maybach, during 1878 Karl Benz, in Mannheim, was concentrating all his efforts on creating a reliable two-stroke gas engine. Benz finished his engine on 31 December 1879, New Year's Eve, and was granted a patent for his engine on 28 June 1880 and along with the design and sale of static engines, he began to design ...
Historians consider that the automobile was "a German invention, while France expanded it commercially", mainly by publicity from car-racing since in January 1886 Karl Benz was granted the first patent for an automobile he designed and built in 1885.