170 years ago, Carl Benz was born - an outstanding German engineer, a pioneer in the automotive industry. The story of his life and his inventions seems fantastic.
Karl Benz and one of its improved models
Name is known to every person who at least to some extent interested in cars. Karl Benz (Carl Friedrich Michael Benz) to Prov considered the inventor of the car. He received the world's first patents for two-stroke gasoline engine, ignition system, running on battery, spark plug, accelerator, carburetor, clutch, transmission, radiator cooling - in short, all the main parts of the vehicle.
From workshop to global concern
Talent engineer and inventor Karl Benz showed at a very early, but his professional career was not at all a matter of course. He was born in a poor family. Father, locomotive engineer, died when Charles was two years old. Through the efforts of his mother, an excellent estimate of the Charles and the state grant, he graduated from the Polytechnic University at the age of 19 years, and then, after seven years of work in various predriyatiy, created his own company.
The first car of Carl Benz
The first car that became the production model was patented in January 1886. A patent under the number 37435 was issued on three-wheeled self-propelled carriage. With this tricycle began the history of the global automotive industry. His invention Benz has equipped gasoline-powered internal combustion engine.
The first "rally" made the inventor's wife Bertha. August 5, 1888, she and the children overcome more than a hundred kilometers to visit his mother. On lifting the machine had to push, and legend has it that it was then that the idea of her husband Bert filed equip its transmission.
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In 1926 the company merged with Benz Daimler, also engaged in production of cars. All models were renamed: they were called "Mercedes-Benz"(this name - Mercedes - was the name of the daughter of one of the partners of Daimler).
Concern and after the death of its founder continued to walk in the forefront of the automotive industry. In 1936 began the production of passenger cars with diesel engines.The first model with a diesel engine was the Mercedes-Benz 260 D.
The story continues
The diesel engine is named after its developer - German inventor Rudolf Diesel (Rudolf Diesel). This engine has a relatively high efficiency, and fuel is cheaper than gasoline. And as the economy was one of the main advantages of diesel engines to gasoline, first on their use intended by the trucks. In 1924 at the Berlin Motor Show German company MAN presented a model that runs on diesel.
By reducing the weight of the diesel engine, the possibility of using it decided to take a closer look and car manufacturers. Particularly active on the solution of this problem is the company's engineers worked Daimler-Benz.