Carl Benz

Carl Benz was a German engineer who built and patented the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.

Benz Patent-Motorwagen: A three-wheeled automobile built by Carl Benz and patented in 1886. Benz’s best-known invention embodied his approach to a practical motor vehicle.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: A German public research university formed from institutions that include the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe. Benz studied mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic School.
German patent 37435: The 1886 German patent documenting Carl Benz’s gas-powered three-wheeled vehicle. It is the legal record most directly associated with Benz’s automobile invention.
Gottlieb Daimler: A German engineer who developed high-speed internal-combustion engines and early motor vehicles independently of Carl Benz. Daimler pursued a parallel vehicle-engine program rather than Benz’s three-wheeled design.
Automotive industry: The global economic sector involved in designing, producing, selling, and maintaining motor vehicles. Benz’s company helped establish automobile manufacture as a commercial industry.
Internal-combustion engine: An engine that produces power by burning fuel inside a combustion chamber. Benz designed a compact engine to propel his automobile without animal power.
Mannheim: A city in southwestern Germany, located where the Rhine and Neckar rivers meet. Benz established his workshop and later built the first Motorwagen in Mannheim.
Benz Patent-Motorwagen No. 1: The first prototype of Carl Benz’s three-wheeled motor vehicle, completed in the mid-1880s. This prototype was the first working realization of Benz’s patented vehicle design.
Siegfried Marcus: An Austrian inventor who built experimental motor vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines. Marcus’s earlier experiments complicate simple claims about who first built a motorcar.
Mercedes-Benz: A German luxury automobile brand formed through the merger of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie. in 1926. The brand’s name preserves Benz’s legacy after the companies joined.

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