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Encyclopedia: Karl Benz

Karl Friedrich Benz (december 6 1844 – April 4 1929) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, also worked independently on the same type of invention, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in automobiles. In 1886 Karl Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which he designed in 1878.

In 1885, Benz created the Motorwagen, the first commercial automobile, powered by a gasoline engine, which was his own four-stroke design. The automobile had three wheels, being steered by the front wheel and with the passengers and the engine being supported by the two wheels in the rear—some now refer to it as the Tri-Car.

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	(Chinese)	卡尔·本茨
	(Japanese)	カール・ベンツ
	(German)	Carl Benz
	(Spanish)	Carl Benz
	(French)	Carl Benz
	(Italian)	Carl Benz

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Benz

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Bertha Benz

Bertha Benz , born Bertha Ringer, was the first person who drove a car over a longer distance. Wife of Karl Benz, she was the first person to drive an automobile over more than a very short distance... Bertha Benz in english The famous drive of Bertha Benz in german...

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1880s

Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach World Leaders Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary) Emperor...

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1844 in science

25 - Karl Benz, German automobile engineer († 1929) Deaths June 19 - Etienne Geoffroy Saint... pancreatic juice Chemistry Karl Klaus discovers ruthenium Mathematics Joseph Liouville finds the first...

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List of mechanical engineers

professions. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B Samuel Bentham - naval machinery Karl Benz - automobiles Henry Bessemer - steel Pierre Bezier - mechanical Joseph Bombardier - snowmobiles...

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1844

- Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918) November 23 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer December 1... professor Gustaf Erik Pasch invents the safety match Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris...

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1929 in science

- Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer August 27 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of... for the Coulomb scattering of relativistic electrons. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Werner Karl... Pierre Raymond de Broglie Chemistry: Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin...

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List of people on stamps of Germany

, 1959, 1961, 1970) Emil von Behring (1954) Karl Benz (1936) St Bernward (1960) Otto von Bismarck... Gasperi (1968) Carl Friedrich Gauss (1955) Paul Gerhardt (1957) St Godehard (1960) Karl Goerdeler (1964...) George Marshall (1960) Karl Marx (1968) Philipp Melanchthon (1960) Felix Mendelssohn (1959) Oskar...

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1886

. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17...

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January 29

- Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. 1863 - Bear River Massacre 1886 - Karl Benz patents the...

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