24 Facts About Karl Benz

Carl Friedrich Benz, sometimes Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer.

Karl Benz is widely regarded as "the father of the car" and "father of the automobile industry".

Karl Benz's parents were Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann Georg Benz, whom she married a few months later.

Karl Benz had originally focused his studies on locksmithing, but he eventually followed his father's steps toward locomotive engineering.

Karl Benz then moved to Mannheim to work as a draftsman and designer in a scales factory.

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In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop in Mannheim, later renamed Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working.

Karl Benz finished his two-stroke engine on 31 December 1879, and was granted a patent for it on 28 June 1880.

Karl Benz showed his real genius through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine.

Karl Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.

Problems arose again when the banks at Mannheim demanded that Bertha and Karl Benz's enterprise be incorporated due to the high production costs it maintained.

Karl Benz became the joint-stock company Gasmotoren Fabrik Mannheim in 1882.

Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885 and named it "Benz Patent-Motorwagen".

The next year Karl Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2, which had several modifications, and in 1889, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.

Karl Benz began to sell the vehicle in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history.

New directors recommended that Karl Benz should create a less expensive automobile suitable for mass production.

From 1893 to 1900 Karl Benz sold the four wheel, two seat Victoria, a two-passenger automobile with a 2.

In 1895, Karl Benz designed the first truck with an internal combustion engine in history.

Karl Benz built the first motor buses in history in 1895, for the Netphener bus company.

In 1896, Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first flat engine.

Karl Benz was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1984 and the European Automotive Hall of Fame.

At first, the production models were raced and the Karl Benz Velo participated in the first automobile race: Paris to Rouen 1894.

Karl Benz was a member of the new Daimler-Benz board of management for the remainder of his life.

On 4 April 1929, Karl Benz died at his home in Ladenburg at the age of 84 from a bronchial inflammation.

Karl Benz was featured in the first episode of the History Television miniseries 'The Cars That Made The World.