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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] It was the first four-wheeled vehicle produced by Benz and Cie.
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.
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 ...
Mercedes-Benz has a long history of comfort, as even the Benz Patent-Motorwagen had a bench well cushioned enough for Bertha Benz to make a 65-mile road trip in 1888. It was roomy, too—her two ...
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.
1885-built Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use The second Marcus car of 1888. The lack of suitable fuels, particularly liquids, hampered early attempts at making and using internal combustion engines—therefore, some of the earliest engines used gas mixtures.
1885 – Karl Benz invents the first car powered by an internal combustion engine, he called it the Benz Patent Motorwagen. [29] 1887 - The first Battery electric multiple unit (battery rail car) was used on the Royal Bavarian State Railways. [30] 1888 - Flocken Elektrowagen built by German inventor Andreas Flocken, the first true electric car.