Benz Patent-Motorwagen

Two years after Karl Benz drove the car in public in July 1886,[https://www.edn.com/karl-benz-drives-the-first-automobile-july-3-1886/ Karl Benz drives the first automobile 3 July 1886] edn.com Karl's wife [[Bertha Benz|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.{{cite web | url=http://scihi.org/carl-benz-automobile/ | title=Carl Benz and the Invention of the Automobile | date=29 January 2018 | access-date=16 February 2022 | archive-date=12 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512011808/http://scihi.org/carl-benz-automobile/ | url-status=dead }} Émile Roger, who made Benz engines under license in France, was one of the first persons to buy Benz' car; from 1888, Roger was also the salesperson of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in France, selling one to [[Émile Levassor]] in 1888.{{Cite book |last=Hendrickson |first=Kenneth E. |title=The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2014 |isbn=9780810888883 |volume=3rd |pages=88}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rauck |first=Max |date=1986 |title=Das 1. Auto ist 100 |trans-title=The first car is 100 years old |language=de |magazine=Kultur & Technik |publisher=Deutsches Museum |page=70}} The Patent-Motorwagen was shown at an exhibition in [[Munich]] in 1888, winning a gold medal, and at the [[1889 Paris Exposition]].

Two years after Karl Benz drove the car in public in July 1886,[https://www.edn.com/karl-benz-drives-the-first-automobile-july-3-1886/ Karl Benz drives the first automobile 3 July 1886] edn.com Karl's wife [[Bertha Benz|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.{{cite web | url=http://scihi.org/carl-benz-automobile/ | title=Carl Benz and the Invention of the Automobile | date=29 January 2018 | access-date=16 February 2022 | archive-date=12 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512011808/http://scihi.org/carl-benz-automobile/ | url-status=dead }} Émile Roger, who made Benz engines under license in France, was one of the first persons to buy Benz' car; from 1888, Roger was also the salesperson of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in France, selling one to [[Émile Levassor]] in 1888.{{Cite book |last=Hendrickson |first=Kenneth E. |title=The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2014 |isbn=9780810888883 |volume=3rd |pages=88}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rauck |first=Max |date=1986 |title=Das 1. Auto ist 100 |trans-title=The first car is 100 years old |language=de |magazine=Kultur & Technik |publisher=Deutsches Museum |page=70}} The Patent-Motorwagen was shown at an exhibition in [[Munich]] in 1888, winning a gold medal, and at the [[1889 Paris Exposition]].

Due to the creation of the Patent-Motorwagen, Karl Benz has been hailed as the father and inventor of the automobile.{{Cite book |last=von Fersen |first=Olaf |title=Ein Jahrhundert Automobiltechnik: Personenwagen |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=2013 |isbn=9783642957727 |pages=10 |language=de}}{{Cite book |last=Derry |first=Thomas Kingston |title=A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 |last2=Williams |first2=Trevor Illtyd |orig-date=1960 |location=New York |publisher=Dover Publications |year=1993 |isbn=9780486274720 |pages=393}}

Due to the creation of the Patent-Motorwagen, Carl Benz has been hailed as the father and inventor of the automobile.{{Cite book |last=von Fersen |first=Olaf |title=Ein Jahrhundert Automobiltechnik: Personenwagen |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=2013 |isbn=9783642957727 |pages=10 |language=de}}{{Cite book |last=Derry |first=Thomas Kingston |title=A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 |last2=Williams |first2=Trevor Illtyd |orig-date=1960 |location=New York |publisher=Dover Publications |year=1993 |isbn=9780486274720 |pages=393}}

==Development, specifications and Karl Benz's first drive==

==Development, specifications and Karl Benz's first drive==