After Karl Benz built the world's first car, the Motorwagen, Olds was inspired by his use of the internal combustion engine and secured a U.S. patent for a three-wheeled, gas-powered vehicle in 1896.

One of many different firsts for Mercedes-Benz, Karl Benz’s aptitude toward car building has inspired fans of the brand for decades. Another fun fact for Karl Benz is that he was the first ...

Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car, known as the "Motorwagen," in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile, meaning Benz is most often identified as the man who invented the car ...

Since the invention of the first gas-powered car with a combustion engine in 1885 by Germany's Karl Benz, the car manufacturing ... like the use of moving assembly lines inspired by the ...

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world’s first car. Benz emerged from a childhood spent mostly in poverty to ...

Bertha Benz changed automotive history by packing her two teenage sons into a car and driving to her mother’s house. It doesn’t exactly sound impressive, but the year was 1888. A 65-mile road ...

I fear it is because its intrepid driver was a woman. Her name was Bertha Benz and she was not only married to Karl Benz, the man credited today with inventing the car, but as a lady of ...

Are you familiar with the story of Bertha Benz? She's amazing. She was the wife of Karl Benz, who built the car that would start Diamler-Benz, a car that was one of the earliest successful ...

But that didn't stop Mrs.Benz. As you may have guessed by the name, Bertha was married to Karl Benz, the engineer who developed his Patent Motorwagen in 1886, which many people feel to be the most ...