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The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German 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.
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 ...
Benz was granted a patent for his automobile on 29 January 1886, [36] and began the first production of automobiles in 1888, after Bertha Benz, his wife, had proved—with the first long-distance trip in August 1888, from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back—that the horseless coach was capable of extended travel.
Daimler Motorized Carriage of 1886 in the Mercedes-Benz Museum. The Daimler Motorized Carriage was the first car produced by German engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, who founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG). The first car was sold in 1892.
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.
1886 (138 years ago) () A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat ...
Cars introduced in 1886 (2 P) Cars introduced in 1888 (1 P) Cars introduced in 1889 ... Veteran car; B. Benz Patent-Motorwagen; Amédée Bollée; D. Daimler ...
This design was used for all further engines, including that of the only existing Marcus car of 1888/1889. It was this ignition, in conjunction with the "rotating brush carburetor", that made the engine's design very innovative. By 1886, the German Navy was using the engine in its torpedo boats. [11]