Siegfried Marcus

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1831 – 1898

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Who was Siegfried Marcus?

Siegfried Samuel Marcus was a German-Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer.

Marcus was born in Malchin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin into a Jewish Family. He moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1852.

From 1856 to 1898 he worked as a self-employed manufacturer of scientific instruments in this city. He developed an interest in electricity and worked as a lighting technician, too. His chief improvements include telegraph systems and ignition devices, such as the "Wiener Zünder", a blasting machine.

About 1870 he put an internal combustion engine on a simple handcart. This appliance was designed for liquid combustibles and made him the first to propel a vehicle by means of gasoline. Today, this car is well known as “The first Marcus Car”.

In 1883 a patent for a low-voltage ignition magneto was given to Marcus in Germany. This design was used for all further engines and, of course, the famous “Second Marcus Car” of 1888–1889. It was this ignition in conjunction with the “rotating brush carburettor” that made the Second Car's design very innovative.

In 1887, Marcus started a co-operation with the Moravian company Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz. They offered two stroke and — after the fall of the Otto-Patent in 1886 — four stroke engines of the Marcus type.

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Born
Sep 18, 1831
Malchin
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Germans
Nationality
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Austrian Empire
Profession
Lived in
  • Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Died
Jul 1, 1898
Vienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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