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This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world's first car.

A guy named Karl Benz recently filed a patent for this here contraption, something he's calling a "Motorwagen." Read about the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen in this first drive article brought to ...

Karl Friedrich Benz, (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered cars, and together with Bertha ...

Then along came pioneering Germans Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz. Benz originally messed about with two-stroke industrial engines, while Daimler worked alongside Otto for the ...

While Karl Benz’s patent drawings of the first practical automobile showed only a small portion of the engine’s cylinder housing ahead of the rear axle, when the 25-car production run began in ...

Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner, believed in her husband’s invention. She had been there since the beginning, and provided much of the funding for it along the way.

Daimler celebrates 125 years since Carl Benz’s Patent-MotorWagen – Click above for high-res image gallery Back on January 29th of 1886, Karl Benz filed the patent for his “vehicle with gas ...

His 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen was the first automobile to generate its own power, which was made with a two-stroke engine and transmitted to the rear axle by a pair of chains.

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On this day in 1886 Karl Benz, along with his wife Bertha, patented their Benz Patent-Motorwagen, with a new and revolutionary power source – the internal combustion engine.