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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.
Today, this is known as "the first Marcus car" but would be better described as a cart. His second car, built and run in 1875 according to some sources, was the first gasoline-driven car and is housed at the Vienna Technical Museum. [30] [31] However, the latest research shows that it was not built until 1888/89. [32]
The 1885 version was difficult to control, leading to a collision with a wall during a public demonstration. The first successful tests on public roads were carried out in the early summer of 1886. Benz first publicly drove the car on 3 July 1886 in Mannheim at a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph). [2]
The first motor car in central Europe and one of the first factory-made cars in the world, was produced by Czech company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau (later renamed to Tatra) in 1897, the Präsident automobil. Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890, and sold their first car in 1892 under the brand name ...
A description of its first journey of 7.5 miles from Vienna to Klosterneuberg was included in the article. [13] In 1968 and 1971, it was disproved that Marcus had constructed his car in 1875; it was built in 1888/89. [1] [2] Since the car was moved to the Vienna Technical Museum in 1918, it has only been driven twice, once when sent for display ...
The first Daimler car was a converted carriage, but with innovations that are still adopted today (cushioned engine mountings, fan cooling, finned-radiator water cooling). [3] France. Steam: Peugeot (later internal-combustion, and the first to be entered in an organised race, albeit for bicycles, Paris–Brest–Paris) Germany.
Automobile dealer Walter Beck remembered the first car he saw in Fort Worth as a 1900 Oldsmobile driven by the well-known vaudeville artist Lew Dockstader. Nonetheless, both made enough of an ...
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.