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Karl Benz was born on 25th November 1844 in Karlsruhe, the son of an engine driver. The middle of the last century, when Benz was an apprentice, was a time of widespread fascination with the"new technology". ... Karl Benz attended the Karlsruhe grammar school and subsequently the Karlsruhe Polytechnic. ... Karl Benz now turned to the two-stroke engine, in the hope of finding a new livelihood. ...
Equally important were the contacts with new business associates, with whose assistance Benz founded a gas engine factory in Mannheim. ... Benz found two new partners and with them founded "Benz & Co. ... Business was good and soon the production of industrial engines was being stepped up
With this new financial security, Karl Benz could now set about designing a "motor carriage", with an engine based on the Otto fourstroke cycle. Unlike Daimler, who installed his engine in an ordinary carriage, Benz designed not only his engine, but the whole vehicle as well. On 29th January 1886, he was granted a patent on it and on 3rd July 1886, he introduced the first automobile in the world to an astonished public. In 1903, Karl Benz retired from active participation in his company. The next year however, he joined the supervisory board of Benz & Cie and he was a member of the supervisory board of Daimler-Benz AG from 1926, when the company was formed, until his death in 1929. In 1872, Karl Benz married Bertha Ringer, who was to be of major support to him in his work. ... Benz lived to witness the motoring boom and the definitive penetration of his idea in to everyday life. ... The former Benz family residence in Ladenburg is now open to the public.The Daimler-Benz foundation, founded in 1986, has its registered office here.
In the late 1880s, Karl Benz put together the works of some creative engine designers, himself included, bicycle mechanics, and drivetrain innovators; elements, that when properly combined, would change the course of history. ...
As a viable concept, the development of the automobile as a means of personal transportation can be traced to 1885 when Karl Benz opened the doors of his Mannheim workshop and rode around the yard in a three-wheeled carriage powered by a single-cylinder internal-combustion engine.
On January 29, 1886, Benz was granted German patent number 37435 for his invention - the Patent-Motorwagen - recognized today as the first automobile. Had he waited just a little longer, Benz would have had to share that distinction with Gottlieb Daimler.
Karl Benz grew up in an era when few ordinary people ventured far from their hometown. ...
Though we celebrate the introduction of the motorcar in 1886 as a turning point in modern civilization, the automobile was not simply and suddenly invented.
Approximate Word count = 2221
Approximate Pages = 8.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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