
Karl Benz
Inventor, Automotive Designer
1844 – 1929
Who was Karl Benz?
Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the petrol-powered automobile, and together with Bertha Benz, pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz received a patent for his work first, and, subsequently patented all the processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879, his first engine patent was granted to him, and in 1886, Benz was granted a patent for his first automobile.
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- Born
- Nov 25, 1844
Mühlburg - Also known as
- Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant
- Carl Friedrich Benz
- Parents
- Spouses
- Bertha Benz
(1872/07/20 - 1929/04/04)
- Bertha Benz
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Karlsruhe
Mechanical Engineering
(1860/09/30 - 1864/07/09) - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Karlsruhe
- Died
- Apr 4, 1929
Ladenburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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