The Dawn of Automotive History Unearthing the Origins of the First Car

1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car. 1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke ... However, the first patented automobile, a vehicle specifically designed to be propelled by an engine, was built by Karl Benz and completed in 1885. Karl ... However, the first patented automobile, a vehicle specifically designed to be propelled by an engine, was built by Karl Benz and completed in 1885. Karl ... The first mass produced car, in the modern sense, was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built in Detroit by Ransome Eli Olds, who came up with ... Henry Ford and William Durant ... Bicycle mechanics J. Frank and Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts, had designed the first successful ... Marcus was credited as having invented the petrol driven motor car. With the German occupation of Austria in March 1938, the memorial in front ... Who created the world's first car is actually a matter of debate; since the invention of the engine, people had been installing them on horse carriages to ... Built in 1938 by apprentices of the Mannheim Works of the Daimler-Benz Company in Stuttgart, Germany. It is a 1/5 size working model of the first automobile ... At first only a few cars a day were produced at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue, Detroit, where two or three men worked on each car built from components made ... The world's first production car with some 1200 units built was the Benz Velo of 1894, a lightweight, durable and inexpensive compact car. 1897 saw the ...