A real legend, a person who went down in history as the creator of the greatest invention, incredibly relevant for mankind - a car ... The name of this man is Karl Benz.
short biography
The pioneer of the automotive industry was born in Germany, in the town of Karlsruhe, on October 25, 1844. His father, steam locomotive engineer Hans Georg Benz, passed away when the boy was only two years old. His mother, the daughter of the gendarme Josephine Vaillant, whose fate Karl repeated, was also orphaned early. Benz always spoke of her with great love and great respect. His mother was always by his side. Despite the very modest state of the family, she managed to give her son not only a good upbringing, but also a decent education.
Studied Karl Benz, whose biography has been associated with technology since early childhood, at the school of his hometown of Karlsruhe. From an early age, the boy showed interest in steam locomotives. Noticing the great abilities of her son in this direction, Josephine Vaillant in 1853 sent Karl to the gymnasium, which at that time was considered the best in the city. The most favorite items of the future inventor of one of the most relevant for humans technical means movement were chemistry and physics.
Chartered Engineer
At the end of September 1860, Karl Benz entered the Karlsruhe Technical University - the Polytechnic School. Teaching was easy for him. The young man was able to successfully complete a five-year course of study in just four years. At the age of nineteen, Karl Benz already had an engineering degree in his hands.
During his training, the young man showed an extraordinary interest in all vehicles powered by steam traction, including locomotives. After graduating from the Polytechnic School, Karl Friedrich Benz, whose biography has always been associated with mechanical engineering, goes to work at a factory in his native Karlsruhe, where steam locomotives were produced. Later, he tried his hand at a repair shop, at enterprises for the production of agricultural equipment in Vienna, Pforzheim and Mannheim.
Bankruptcy of the started business
And all this time, Karl Benz, dreaming of starting his own business, looked closely to eventually be able to start creating a completely new type of engine. And already in 1871, his ideas began to be realized. In Mannheim, together with August Ritter, he opened his own mechanical workshop. Here the partners produced metal parts.
However, Ritter strongly resisted Benz's idea to start developing a new engine. Soon the partner announced his departure. The venture was on the verge of failure. The father of his girlfriend, Bertha Ringer, whom he met at that time, helped Carl to “pull out” the workshop from debts.
The future father-in-law bought out his entire share from August Ritter. Thanks to a loan received from Berta's father, Karl Benz became the full owner of the workshop. In July 1872, the young played a wedding. And the loan that the hero of our story received from Carl Friedrich Rigger became Bertha's dowry.
The talented inventor Karl Benz, whose photo can be seen today in German mechanical engineering museums, plunged headlong into the engine development process internal combustion leaving the business unattended. As a result, by 1877 his workshop was on the verge of ruin. Very quickly, the enterprise turned into a bankrupt - this happened after, seeing his disregard for own business Banks took turns refusing to grant him a loan.
First discovery
All this happens at the very moment when Karl Benz has already assembled his first prototype of a two-prong engine. He faces a very difficult choice: to throw all his strength into restoring the business, or to go headlong into inventive activity.
Benz decides to stop making parts. He creates his first brainchild, but he fails to patent it. It turned out that engines of this type had already been assembled by other inventors. Having gone to certain tricks, Karl Benz still receives a patent for the creation of a fuel system. Thanks to this paper, he manages to start, albeit small, but still production, and launch his offspring on the market.
The first Benz two-stroke engine, which was released in 1885, was of great interest to investors, and with some of them, Karl decides to create a new company, finally closing his small workshop for the production of spare parts.
First car
giving everything daytime new production, Benz is still working at night on the development of a full-fledged car on its own engine. Finally, after long painful days of hard work, in the same 1885, Karl Benz shows motorists his first model of an open three-wheeled double car with a four stroke engine.
Tirelessly, Benz, in his free time from his main job (business), completely designed the car. He owned everything: from the control system and the engine to the design. In January 1886, Benz received the first patent for this model. vehicle and then went out with her consumer market.
And although the novelty itself did not particularly interest the buyer, many liked the engine of the first prototype. It has become the most successful element in the car. The engine began to be actively sold, and primarily in Germany itself. Very soon, Benz manages to sell a patent for its production in France. Here we immediately begin to assemble the engine. Panhart and Levassor are businessmen who, on behalf of Carl, represent own car, but equipped with its engine, - in 1889, at an exhibition in Paris, they were a powerful competitor to Daimler, who also demonstrated his new product. It was this circumstance that did not allow the creation of the inventor to successfully break into the market.
End of black stripe
Since that time, however, ends the series of failures from which Karl Benz suffered so much. The inventions of this man are the result of his incredible perseverance and great efforts.
Soon he creates another original design, finalizing it on numerous runs around the test circle. This is a new engine based on a two-cylinder layout with a horizontal arrangement of chambers. The Benz firm brings it to the market, equipping it with a sports car. The car, quickly winning love, attracts many buyers.
A few years after a very successful sales and a tangible increase in production capacity, the Benz company is merged with another German manufacturer- Daimler. All this takes place in the twenty-sixth year of the last century in the wake of the economic crisis that has gripped Germany. As a result, it was created famous brand Daimler-Benz, which is so popular with car enthusiasts.
On April 4, 1929, Karl Benz left this world. It happened in the eighty-fifth year of his life, in the city of Ladenburg. This was a brief biography of one of the most famous and respected car manufacturers in the world.
In the winter of 1886, the German mechanic Karl Benz received a patent for the three-wheeled vehicle he invented, equipped with a gas engine, which would later be called a car. So, now we are celebrating the 130th anniversary of our favorite vehicle.
To be honest, more than 400 people from different countries peace. The question is, why Benz? The answer is simple: he was the first to patent his brainchild. Nevertheless, even during the lifetime of the inventor, his primacy was questioned. Many contemporaries believed that the first self-propelled carriage was invented by another German - Gottlieb Daimler, who in 1885 received a patent for a bicycle with a motor. This fact gave rise to talk about the championship of Daimler. Let's try to figure it out.
Biography facts
Karl Friedrich Michael Benz was born on November 26, 1844 in the German town of Ladenburg near Mannheim in the family of a hereditary blacksmith Hans-Georg Benz. About a year before his birth, the Karlsruhe-Heidelberg railway line opened nearby, where the father of the future inventor got a job as a machinist. But a couple of years after the birth of Karl Benz Sr., he caught a cold, fell ill and died. The family remained in the care of the mother.
For Carl Railway has always been something unusually attractive and mysterious. He himself later recalled that already in early childhood, no matter what he drew, he got a locomotive, no matter what he played, he got a train. Even in the evening the little boy threw himself into bed, puffing like a locomotive, and woke up in the morning, repeating the same sounds. He said: "For me, the locomotive was the highest goal, my favorite dream." As a result, Karl was so carried away by steam locomotives that even in his youth he set out to build a locomotive that would run without rails ...
Carl's mother, being a sane and practical woman, without overwriting her son's hereditary interest in technology, predicted for him a career as an official. Therefore, she made every effort to give him a good education. Benz was lucky with the teachers: the director of the lyceum was the famous German poet Johann-Peter Goebel. Later, at the Higher Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe, Ferdinand Redtenbacher, one of the founders of the German school of theoretical engineering, became his teacher. The well-known theoretical scientist Frani Grashof also worked there.
During his studies and immediately after graduating from the Polytechnic School, Karl had to work hard to pay for his education and support his family. The young man was a photographer, watchmaker, worker, then a draftsman and designer at a number of enterprises. He expressed his life credo with the words: "More respect for the craft."
In 1867, Benz first saw a bicycle and immediately built something similar. But his real passion was engines. Since the time of the Polytechnic School, Karl was convinced that the gas engine was more promising for use in transport than Steam engine. And that is why he devoted a lot of time to the design of such motors. The dream of youth - a self-propelled carriage - was also not forgotten, however, now the inventor wanted to build a wagon powered by an internal combustion engine.
Own business
In 1871, Benz decided to open a firm for the design and construction of stationary gas engines. The business promised to become profitable, since the booming industry demanded such equipment. But money was not enough, I had to take a companion. A year after the founding of the company, Benz married Bertha Ringer, having received a decent dowry for his wife. And immediately bought out the partner's share, becoming the sole owner of the enterprise. It was then that he built his first workable two stroke engine.
Support in the work was provided by his wife, who meekly endured all the hardships of life that resulted from Carl's fanatical attempts to build a motor crew, which took the lion's share of the family income. Things got to the point that in 1877 the bank refused to finance Benz. However, the inventor continued to work and in 1879 he tried to patent his engine. Alas, during the patent examination it turned out that shortly before Benz, a similar unit was patented in the UK.
Nevertheless, a patent was issued to Benz, but not for the entire engine, but for " original system fuel supply". Among other things, this gave the right to produce motors. Which the designer used. Having found partners, he organized a new enterprise for the production industrial engines, although he still spent most of his time creating self-propelled crew.
This, of course, distracted Karl from the main business and greatly annoyed business partners - their money was not allocated for dubious experiments, but for specific production. As a result, everyone refused to work with the inventor and he had to look for new investors. In 1883, Benz again managed to find financial support and found the company Benz & Co. in Mannheim. Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik. From the same mistakes, the corresponding conclusions were drawn: work on the motor crew continued in the home workshop.
The car was born!
The designer himself had to promote his invention. In 1888, Benz exhibited it at the Munich Industrial Exhibition and personally demonstrated the car for four hours a day, driving around the city. However, despite the general admiration and even gold medal awarded to the exhibit, there were still no buyers. In an attempt to secure applications for his invention, Carl took out patents outside of Germany.
According to the memoirs of Benz himself, the first buyer of the car was a resident of Paris, Emile Roger. In 1887, he bought one car, and when it performed well, he bought another batch.
The three-wheeled carriage turned out to be unstable, so from 1893 Benz switched to the production of the four-wheeled Viktoria car with a 3 hp engine, and a year later the Velo model appeared before the public. Gradually, the demand for cars grew, and to the extent that things went uphill. By the beginning of 1901, Benz's enterprise had become one of the largest in its industry and had branches in other countries. In 1903, together with his son Eugen, he founded the new company Carl Benz & Sohne in Ladenburg.
The inventor was aware of the importance of his offspring and later wrote: "I can safely say that I was the first to create a car and overcome the difficulties associated with its implementation." But contemporaries were in no hurry to recognize Benz's primacy in the invention of the automobile. The case, as usual, was overgrown with numerous "details". So, already at the beginning of the twentieth century, some authors argued that “Benz was an employee of Daimler to work at the factory gas engines in Deitz and that the ideas of both inventors did not then meet with recognition either from Otto or from his companion Langen.
This was not true, but then, as, indeed, now, few people were interested in the truth. Everyone except Benz, of course, this version was fine. It got to the point that in a number of publications, the championship in the invention of the car was attributed not even to Daimler, but to third parties, most often the French. There were many reasons for this, but the main one was that in the late XIX - early XX centuries, France was the most automotive country peace.
All this drove the aging inventor to despair, because Karl Benz had invested his whole life in cars. And although he was lucky, as not many inventors are lucky, he saw the triumphal procession of his offspring around the world, nevertheless, offensive sounded everywhere: it was not Benz who invented the car!
Therefore, memoirs appeared, where Karl Benz describes in detail the process of inventing a car. The seventh chapter of his book is called "Inventors" of the car "and is dedicated to upholding historical justice. As a result, the merits of Karl Benz were recognized and he is rightfully considered the man who gave the world a car.
Benz got his first paid job as a technical draftsman and designer at a scale factory in Mannheim.
In 1868 he took a job with a bridge building company. Then he worked at a metalworking plant in Vienna.
In 1871, Karl Benz, together with the mechanic August Ritter, founded his first company in Mannheim. Benz later bought out Ritter's stake in the business with the dowry of his fiancée, Bertha Ringer.
In 1872 Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer got married.
In 1890, Karl Benz's three-wheeled vehicle became the world's first commercial vehicle. The car had an engine with a displacement of 1.7 liters, located horizontally, a T-shaped handlebar, two-stage box gears. Engine power increased from year to year: from 0.75 to 2.5 hp. This was enough to drive with a maximum speed of 19 km / h.
By the end of 1899, the two thousandth car was produced at the Benz factory, and production figures reached 572 models per year. Karl Benz's firm was ranked first in the world in terms of production among car manufacturers.
In 1906, Benz and his son Richard founded Carl Benz Sohne in Ladenburg. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the company produced only about 350 cars. In the meantime, the Benz family also moved to Ladenburg.
In 1912, Benz left the company, leaving his sons in charge. In 1923, Carl Benz Sohne produced its last car.
Karl Benz died at his home in Ladenburg on April 4, 1929. The house is currently used as the headquarters of the Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler Foundation (Carl Benz- und Gottlieb Daimler-Stiftung).
In 1998, as a result of the acquisition by Daimler-Benz AG of the corporation Chrysler LLC, was formed concern Daimler Chrysler AG.
In 2007, the name DaimlerChrysler AG was changed to Daimler AG.
The German automotive concern Daimler AG is one of the largest companies in Germany in terms of turnover and one of the world's leading automakers.
The auto concern owns such car brands How " Mercedes Benz"(Mercedes-Benz), "Maybach" (Maybach), "Smart" (smart), "Freightliner" (Freightliner), "Fuso" (Fuso), "Setra" (Setra) and others.
Start
Karl Benz was born on November 25, 1844 in Karlsruhe in the family of a worker - a locomotive driver. In 1846, tragedy struck the family. Karl's father died of pneumonia, leaving his wife with a two-year-old child in her arms. A small pension was enough only for the bare necessities, but mother Karla took on any job, just to raise her son and give him a good education. In 1850, Benz entered primary school Karlsruhe. In 1853 he graduated from it and entered the technical lyceum. The boy was distinguished by outstanding abilities, especially he was given the exact sciences. After graduating from the Lyceum at the age of 15, Karl effortlessly entered the faculty technical mechanics University of Karlsruhe. And four years later (the full course of study lasted five years), on July 9, 1964, at the age of 19, Karl Benz received an engineering degree.
Formation
Since childhood, knowing the value of money, knowing poverty and need, Benz did not shy away from dirty and hard work. For the first seven years of his independent life, Benz worked at small enterprises in Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Pforzheim, and Vienna. He worked in repair shops, in factories for the production of agricultural equipment. And for a long time he nurtured the idea of his own business. In 1871, this idea came to fruition - Benz and his friend August Ritter opened a private mechanical workshop in Mannheim.
Things did not work out, the owners of the workshop fell into debt. Ritter announced his resignation from the enterprise, which meant the collapse of the company. To save the small company, Benz was forced to turn to the father of the girl he was courting at the time - his future father-in-law, Carl Friedrich Ringer.
A carpenter by profession, a simple man, but firmly on his feet, Carl Ringer appreciated the talent, enterprise and determination of the young Benz. He loaned Benz a significant amount, which, on the one hand, allowed Karl Benz to buy out his share of the company from August Ritter and become the sole owner of the workshop, and on the other hand, greatly strengthened Benz's relationship with the Ringer family.
July 20, 1872 Karl Benz and Cecile Bertha Ringer became spouses. The dowry of the bride was the same loan received by Charles from his father-in-law.
Personal life
The marriage of Karl and Bertha Benz is the clearest example of a happy union of two hearts that lasted a lifetime. Bertha Benz survived her husband for a long time - she died on May 5, 1944, having survived her 95th birthday for two days. In this marriage, the Benzes had five children.
The role of Berta in the history of the creation of the car is difficult to overestimate. Several times, Karl's company was on the verge of ruin. And Berta came to the rescue, moreover, providing not only moral, but also quite practical support. There is a well-known story when Berta, without the knowledge of her husband, made, in fact, an advertising run on the first Benz car. It happened on August 5, 1888. Berta put her two eldest sons in the car and drove to independent travel from Mannheim to Pforzheim, to my parents. She managed to get to her hometown before sunset, having overcome 106 km of travel in a daylight hours. On the way, Bertha made several trips to pharmacies to buy gasoline, which was sold as a cleaning agent. Worn-out brakes with leather pads she repaired at the saddler's. torn drive chain- at the blacksmith. Berta cleared the clogged gas line along the way with a hairpin, and replaced the broken insulator of the ignition system with a stocking garter. Having suffered from the climbs that Berta had to push the car with the boys by hand, she advised her husband to equip the car with an engine torque control device. After that, Benz designed an automobile gearbox.
First car
Karl Benz engine
Having acquired a mechanical workshop at his own disposal, Karl Benz took up the development of internal combustion engines - a fashionable novelty of that time. Benz planned to sell motors for use in agriculture and in industry. But in parallel with the development of the engine, he was also engaged in another idea - the development of a self-running stroller.
The development of the first engine took more than six years. Patent for two-stroke benzy new engine Karl Benz received on December 31, 1878. And that was just the first sign. In the next three years, he patented a battery-powered ignition system, a spark plug, an accelerator, a carburetor, an engine water cooler and, somewhat later, a clutch and gearbox.
The workshop was engaged in the repair of agricultural machinery and horse-drawn carts, barely covering Benz's inventive expenses. Money was sorely lacking.
In 1882, feverishly seeking funds, Benz organized Joint-Stock Company Gasmotoren Fabrik Mannheim. But the company was never able to launch the production of engines. In 1883, Benz stepped down from the company's board and invested in a small bicycle workshop. New company received Benz name& Company Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik and was later renamed Benz & Cie. It was at this enterprise that Karl Benz managed to establish mass production gasoline engines. In the next three years, Benz, along with improving the design of the motor, was involved in the creation of the first car.
A rare shot of Karl Benz's first car. It has not been preserved to date.
What was this car? A tricycle carriage on bicycle wheels. Front wheel controlled by a steering mechanism with a handle rotating in a horizontal plane. four-stroke gasoline engine was located under the seat above rear axle. Torque is transmitted to rear axle bicycle chain. In general, the car was extremely capricious in operation and unreliable. But it was the first car in the world. Or - one of the first (a matter of priorities in this case we do not consider). Throughout 1886 and the beginning of 1887, Motorwagen underwent "sea trials". In fact, Benz simply could not sell the car and was forced to drive it himself. In 1887, Benz's car went to the World Exhibition in Paris.
In 1888, Benz sold the first car in Germany. In the same year, the Paris branch of the Benz company was opened - France showed more interest in the new product than Germany.
Karl Benz driving his first car.
The year 1888 was a turning point for Benz. In total, from 1886 to 1893, Karl Benz managed to sell 25 cars of the first Motorwagen model.
In 1893, the second Victoria model was prepared for production. The car received four wheels and a more powerful (about three times) engine in 3 horsepower. Max Speed car was 20 km/h. During the year, Benz managed to sell 45 copies of the car.
In 1894 the Victoria was replaced by the Velo. For the first time in history, car races were held on these machines (Paris-Rouen). In 1895, Benz's enterprise turned into a full-fledged car company. The first ever truck and bus were produced.
The phenomenon of "Mercedes"
Since 1889, after the Benz car was again presented at an exhibition in Paris, the cars of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, another manufacturer German cars went head to head. But still, Karl Benz cars sold better - they had a reputation for reliable and durable cars.
In 1897, Karl Benz designed a 2-cylinder four-stroke boxer engine who brought success. The motor turned out to be compact and powerful.
In 1906 Karl and Bertha Benz moved to Ladenburg. Benz felt tired and needed rest. Son Eugene followed his parents. Ladenburg became the last home for the aging Karl Benz...
In 1926, in the wake of the post-war economic crisis that swept Germany, the companies of Benz and Daimler decided to unite in order to save the fading business. June 28 of the same year Benz company& Cie and DMG merged to form a new company - Daimler-Benz. All car models produced by the company were called Mercedes-Benz.
Under this now legendary name, a 1902 car was released, which became fateful for the Daimler company. Equipped with a 35-horsepower engine, this car was considered at one time the height of perfection. The name "Mercedes 35h" was given by the creators of the car at the request of Emil Ellinek, a German entrepreneur, racing driver, who formulated the engine specifications for this car. (According to other sources, the first car, named after the youngest daughter of Ellinek, was released in 1899, a year before the death of Gottlieb Daimler).
The success of the Mercedes was so convincing that in 1903 Emil Ellinek filed a petition to change his surname. After obtaining permission, he became Emil Ellinek-Mercedes. Ellinek-Mercedes died on January 1, 1918.
Last years
In this picture, Karl Benz, driving his own Patent Motorwagen, is 81 years old..
IN last years life Karl Benz retired. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation as the founding father of the global automotive industry.
Outstanding engineers of our time worked in the combined Daimler-Benz company. In particular, Ferdinand Porsche Sr., creator of the most famous models Mercedes, inventor, great auto designer...
Karl Benz died on April 4, 1929 from pneumonia in Ladenburg at the age of 85.
Karl Benz- inventor. Carl Friedrich Michael Benz was born on November 25, 1844 in the city of Mulburg in Germany in the family of a hereditary blacksmith. Later, his father went to work at a railroad depot, where he worked as a locomotive driver, and when Benz was only two years old, his father died after suffering a cold.
The boy was further raised by his mother, who made every effort to ensure that Benz received a good education. After graduating high school in the city of Mühlburg, Benz brilliantly passes the final exams and receives an excellent diploma, with which he easily enters the technical school of Karlsruhe, which he also graduates with honors.
During his studies, he is interested in construction steam engines and his main dream and goal in life is the development of a new, more efficient engine that could get rid of the existing problems and allow the creation of new vehicles.
After leaving school, Benz goes to work as a clerk in an engineering company and subsequently changes several jobs. In those days, Otto engines ruled in mechanical engineering, which Benz did not like and which he wants to radically change, considering them further development dead end and sees no prospects in it. His work continues until 1870, in which his mother dies.
After the death of his mother, Benz quits his job at the enterprise and, together with a partner, opens his own workshop, under which they acquire a piece of land on which a small workshop is being built. Benz's dream of developing a fundamentally new engine is not supported by his friend, and under his persuasion, he abandons his idea for some time.
The workshop is engaged in the production of various elements and spare parts for train engines and wagons, and this becomes their main business.
After a short period of time. Benz marries Berga Ringer, who has quite a lot of money, which is enough to buy out a share from his partner. After Benz becomes the sole owner of the business, he abandons his usual work, which is carried out according to the residual principle and devotes all his time to the development of an internal combustion engine.
Lack of attention to business and a complete lack of interest in it leads to the fact that Benz's enterprise quickly turns into bankruptcy after the banks refused to give him loans, seeing his disregard for doing business. It happens just as Benz is ready to assemble his first prototype, and in 1877 he faces a difficult choice.
Benz decides not to engage in further production of spare parts, but creates the first prototype, but he fails to patent it, since apart from him similar engines already made by other inventors, and one of them received a patent for it. Having gone to certain tricks, Benz receives a patent for fuel system, and this paper allows him to start a small limited production and market release of his invention. Benz's first two-stroke engine in 1885 attracted the interest of several inverters, with which he formed a new company, finally abandoning his small factory.
Paying attention to new production during the day, Benz tries to create a new one in the evening and at night. full car on his own engine, and in the same 1885, he presents the world with his first model, an open three-wheeled two-seater with a more powerful four-stroke engine.
Working tirelessly, in his spare time from his main job, Benz completely designs the car himself, starting from its management and a new engine, ending with the creation of the first prototype and the solution of emerging small problems with her design. In the first month of 1886, Benz receives the first patent for his vehicle model and enters the consumer market with it.
The novelty did not interest buyers in general, although a lot of people liked its engine and actually became the most successful element that did not let it fail again. The engine begins to be actively sold, and primarily in Germany itself.
Soon, Benz sells a patent for its production in France, where its assembly immediately begins and on the basis of the Panhart and Levassor plant, which, on behalf of Benz, present their car equipped with its engine at an exhibition in 1889 in Paris, where it competes with the same representative their new product to Daimler and this competition does not allow the brainchild of Benz to successfully enter the market.
The streak of bad luck that haunts Benz finally ends in 1980. His efforts and perseverance in obsession with the idea of creating his own original car, is being evaluated by several other German automakers who are opening with Benz co-production and create a new company that produces exclusively his models. In 1980-1981
Benz is actively developing new model, creating an original design, which is being finalized through numerous tests and runs on a test lap, after which, in 1987, he creates a new engine based on a two-cylinder layout with horizontal arrangement cameras. The engine gets the name of the counter-engine, and the firm
Benz launches it on the market in a complete set of new sports car. Raspberry quickly wins the love of the public and acquires many buyers, which bring the company a good profit, for the first time after years of trying and failing.
After several years of successful sales and production ramp-up, the Benz company merged with the Daimler company, resulting in the company that we now know under the Daimler-Benz brand.
On April 4, 1929, Benz passes away at the age of 85 and has created one of the most respected automakers in the world.
Achievements of Karl Benz:
Benz became one of the founders modern engineering. He developed original engine and many developments of car systems, from fuel to running gear, which are still in use today. Having come a long way, after many failures over the decades, he was still able to create own brand loved by consumers.
Significant dates in the life of Karl Benz:
Born November 25, 1844
1846 father dies
1864 graduates from a technical school and goes to work in an industrial enterprise
1870 mother dies, quits job and starts first company
1877 first firm went bankrupt
1885 new firm with co-owners
1889 unsuccessful premiere of a new model at an exhibition in Paris
1897 develops the first successful engine, which became the basis for the first popular model sports car
1926 Establishes a new venture with the automaker Daimler
1926 dies at age 85
Interesting from the life of Karl Benz:
August 1, 1888, the first driver license issued to Benz survived until today and exhibited in a museum in Germany
His first car model, which was more like a three-wheeled tent with an engine, is on display in the museum and is in working order.
The famous three-beam star was originally used by Daimler and meant the use of his engines on land, on water and in the sky. Shortly before teaming up with Benz, Daimler adorned her own house as a talisman, later it became the emblem of their joint venture.
