Two people take credit for creating the first ever car, and they are Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. Eventually the car companies that they both created merged to become the Daimler-Benz Company, which today produces Mercedez-Benz automobiles now over a century later.
Carl Benz was born in 1844, which was 10 years after Gottlieb Daimler. Both of the two inventors were mechanical engineers who initially worked developing the internal combustion engines that initially ran on liquid gasoline. They began installing the engines on bicycles, carriages and other vehicles with wheels that were normally powered by people or horses. Then the experiments began working quite well, the two inventors started improving the designs until they finally created what would become modern day cars.
Carl Benz had used a gasoline engine with one cylinder that was used to power a three-wheeled car in 1995, but it wasn't patented until 1886. This car had a tiller that was used to steer the front wheel. He began selling these cars in 1887. Gottlieb Daimler patented his design much earlier, in 1885. He was also notorious for creating the carburetor. He sold one of his early cars to the Sultan of Morocco in 1889. It was in 1926 that the two companies merged and became the Daimler-Benz Company.
It was later that other European and American inventors added more innovations to make other versions of the earlier automobiles. Emile Levassor was a French man, and also the first person to put the engine in the front of the car. This provided more powerful engines and power than those created by either Daimler or Benz. The Levassor engine also had two cylinders, and his automobile was shown off when it was involved with a 700 mile race in France, which he won by completing in 49 hours.
Carl Benz was born in 1844, which was 10 years after Gottlieb Daimler. Both of the two inventors were mechanical engineers who initially worked developing the internal combustion engines that initially ran on liquid gasoline. They began installing the engines on bicycles, carriages and other vehicles with wheels that were normally powered by people or horses. Then the experiments began working quite well, the two inventors started improving the designs until they finally created what would become modern day cars.
Carl Benz had used a gasoline engine with one cylinder that was used to power a three-wheeled car in 1995, but it wasn't patented until 1886. This car had a tiller that was used to steer the front wheel. He began selling these cars in 1887. Gottlieb Daimler patented his design much earlier, in 1885. He was also notorious for creating the carburetor. He sold one of his early cars to the Sultan of Morocco in 1889. It was in 1926 that the two companies merged and became the Daimler-Benz Company.
It was later that other European and American inventors added more innovations to make other versions of the earlier automobiles. Emile Levassor was a French man, and also the first person to put the engine in the front of the car. This provided more powerful engines and power than those created by either Daimler or Benz. The Levassor engine also had two cylinders, and his automobile was shown off when it was involved with a 700 mile race in France, which he won by completing in 49 hours.
