Witnessing the Birth of a Transportation Giant The First Car

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile. Henry Ford's Quadricycle ... In 1896, the founder of Ford Motor Company built his first car and took it for a spin on the streets of Detroit. ... It was only 45 ... For #NationalInventorsDay, we recognize the pioneer who invented the first automobile; Carl (Karl) Benz. 135 years ago he registered his no.1 ... ... first car in history. While numerous other attempts had been made to create a self-powered machine, the Motorwagen was considered the first ... In 1886, Karl Benz was granted a patent for his automobile and began the first production car in 1888. His first-ever car contained the ... Benz ran his first car in 1885, Daimler in 1886. Although there is no reason to believe that Benz had ever seen a motor vehicle before he made ... There is another group of people, however that say that French engineer and army officer Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invented the first car in the world in 1769. A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is ... Karl first worked on creating his petrol-driven two-stroke engine in 1879 and got a patent for it six months later. After this, he also invented ... Karl Benz finished the first version of his Motorwagen in 1885, and, crucially, had it patented on 29 January 1885 as 'motorcar fuelled by gas'.