Old Car History

To 29.01.1886 engineer Carl Benz the patent originating from Mannheim received for the automobile. That is, it has the invention of the automobile under its name in the patent office, a national authority, to register and protect let. One receives a patent only, if the invention is a world novelty and is also commercially applicable it. Naturally there, as with nearly all inventions, were many other developers, engineers and technicians, that had contributed with their preceeding ideas to the solution also with the car.

But Carl Benz brought all these ideas together in seniem automobile. " Patent Motorwagen" as he was called at that time, looked like an open horse carriage, with narrow tires and wire spokes. It was the first tricycle car with petrol engine and Kettenantrieb. The engine of the car had to be started with a flywheel. It drove proud 16 kilometers per hour. To see can do you this patent engine cars in the German museum in Munich. Nearly at the same time God-dear Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach at an improvement of the Otto engine, thus the four-stroke engine, built also. Daimler wanted to build a light drive engine from the heavy Otto engine. It set the petrol engine into a framework from wood. Because one sat on its car as on a horse, Daimler called it " Reitwagen" - with it looked, like a motorcycle and had also only two wheels. One year later built the first four-wheeled car from a horse carriage for Daimler. With combustion engine and belt drive. That drove likewise 16 kilometers per hour. Also in France 1890 appeared the first vehicles. When first modern car - as we it also know, one can " Mercedes" designate, engineer Maybach in the years 1900/1901 developed. It had four cylinders, 35 HP and drove 72 kilometers per hour.