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Karl Benz
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Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the petrol-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz, pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz received a patent for his work first, and, subsequently patented all the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879, his first engine patent was granted to him, and in 1886, Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile.

Karl Benz

Contents
1 Early life 2 Benz's first factory and early inventions (1871 1882) 3 Benz's Gasmotoren-Fabrik Mannheim (1882 1883) 4 Benz & Cie. and the Benz Patent Motorwagen 5 Benz & Cie. expansion 6 Blitzen Benz 7 Benz Shne (19061923) 8 Toward Daimler-Benz and the first MercedesBenz in 1926 9 In popular culture 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 External links

Born Died Nationality Education Spouse(s) Children Parents Signature

November 25, 1844 Mhlburg (Karlsruhe), Germany April 4, 1929 (aged 84) Ladenburg, Germany German University of Karlsruhe Bertha Ringer 5, Eugen, Richard, Clara, Ellen, Thilde Johann George Benz (father), Josephine Vaillant (mother)

Engineering career Significant projects Significant design founded Mercedes-Benz Benz Patent Motorwagen

Early life

Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Significant gasoline-powered automobile November 25, 1844 in Mhlburg, now a borough of advance Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later.[1][2][3][4][5] When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father.[6]
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