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    In questo giorno del 1886-Karl Benz brevetti la prima automobile guidata dalla benzina di successo: il Benz Bretent-Motorwagen.

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    1. nimicdoareu on

      Based on his experience with bicycles, Benz used similar technology when he created an *automobile*. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages’ wooden ones) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator.

      Power was transmitted by means of two roller chains to the rear axle. Benz finished his creation in 1885 and named it “Benz Patent-Motorwagen”.

      The automobile was powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. Benz’s engine was a refinement of the four-stroke engine designed by fellow German Nikolaus Otto, who had refined his design from Étienne Lenoir’s two-stroke engine.

      The horseless carriage had a water-cooled internal combustible engine, three wheels, tubular framework, tiller steering, and a buggy-like seat for two.

      The vehicle incorporated elements that would characterize the modern vehicle, including electrical ignition, differential, mechanical valves, carburetor, oil and grease cups for lubrication, and a braking system.

      The Motorwagen was patented on 29 January 1886 as DRP-37435: “automobile fueled by gas”.

      On 3 July 1886 Karl Benz drove the first automobile in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h.

      Two years after Karl Benz drove the car in public in July 1886, Karl’s wife Bertha demonstrated its feasibility in a trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in August 1888.

      Around the same time, the Patent-Motorwagen became the first commercially available automobile in history.

    2. WillingnessFew6784 on

      So this is where the name benzin for fuel came from?

    4. BossBobsBaby on

      Which is exactly why I am very frustrated if Americans say they invented cars lol

    9. Third-Floor-47 on

      In case you need to win in trivial pursuit it is 1885 – he built and ran it then, and the answer is 1885, 1886 is when he received the patent (he applied in 1885) – just saying, as a previous trivial pursuit champ at my dorm.

    10. TunnelSpaziale on

      I’ve bought a copy of the patent at the Mercedes museum and I’ve seen her there, she looks amazing.

      One century after the first automobile this tricycle brought yet another innovation.

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