Karl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844-1929) · Germany · Scientists · Died at 84
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Something wrong?He built the first practical automobile and then drove it in public in 1886. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen wasn't just a prototype - it was the first car put into series production, and the company that made it became the world's largest automobile plant.
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Carl Benz c. 1889
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Benz-Patent-Motorwagen - Illustrirte Zeitung 1888
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Bertha Benz with her husband Carl Benz in a Benz-Viktoria, model 1894
Carl and Bertha Benz, their daughter Klara and Fritz Held on a Benz Victoria during a trip near Schriesheim in 1894
Carl Benz, his family and Theodor Baron von Liebieg in 1894, on a trip from Mannheim to Gernsheim, driving a Benz Vis-à-Vis and a Benz VictoriaAwards
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Born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant in 1844, the German engine designer would go by Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz. In 1885 he completed the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, receiving a patent for it the following year - the same year he first took it out for a public drive. His company, Benz & Cie., operated from Mannheim and grew into the first dedicated automobile plant on earth, and the largest of its era. In 1926 it merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz, the maker of Mercedes-Benz. He died in 1929, widely regarded as the father of the car and of the industry that followed.
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