Karl Benz become a German engine designer and a automobile engineer, He made the Benz Patent Moter car which is first automobile positioned into manufacturing, making him the inventor of the car.
Biography[]
Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant on November 25, 1844, in Mühlburg, the town of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, today part of modern-day Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and locomotive driver Johann Georg Benz, whom she married several times. a few months later According to German law, the child was given the name "Benz" due to the legal marriage of his parents Benz and Weilland. When he was two years old, his father died of pneumonia and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in his father's honor.
Despite his poverty, his mother tried to give him a good education. Benz studied at the local gymnasium in Karlsruhe and was an excellent student.
In 1853, at the age of nine, he entered the Scientific Institute. He then studied under Ferdinand Redtenbacher at the Polytechnic University.
Benz initially focused on plumbing, but eventually followed in his father's footsteps towards mechanical engineering. On September 30, 1860, at the age of 15, he passed the entrance exam to themechanical engineering department at the University of Karlsruhe, which he subsequently attended. Benz graduated on July 9, 1864 at the age of 19.
After receiving formal training, Benz receivedprofessional training for 7 years in several companies, but none of them fit. His education began in Karlsruhe where he worked for two years in various positions in a mechanical engineering company.
He then moved to Mannheim where he worked as a draftsman and designer in a weighing plant. In 1868 he went to Pforzheim to work for the bridge-building company Gebrüder Benckiser Eisenwerke und Maschinenfabrik. Finally he went to Vienna for a short time to work for a steel construction company.
Benz's lifelong hobby took him to a bicycle repair shop in Mannheim owned by Max Rose and Friedrich Wilhelm Esslinger. In 1883, the three founded a new industrial machinery company called Benz & Companie Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik, commonly referred to as Benz & Cie. The company, which grew rapidly with 25 employees, soon began manufacturing static gas engines as well.
The success of the
company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge his lifelong passion for building horseless carriages. Drawing on his experience and love of bikes, he used similar techniques to build his car.
It has wire wheels (as opposed to wagon wood)with a four-stroke engine of its own design between the rear wheels, with very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Power was transmitted to the rear axle via two roller chains.Karl Benz completed his work in 1885 and named it "Benz Patent Motorwagen".
was not just a stagecoach or horse-drawn carriage, it was the first automobile designedentirely to generate its own energy. So Karl Benz gets a patent and is considered the inventor.
Motorwagen was patented on January 29, 1886 as DRP-37435: "Gas Powered Car".
The 1885 version was difficult to control and collided with a wall during public display. The first successful tests on public roads were conducted in the early summer of 1886. The following year, Benz built the Motorwagen Model 2 with somemodifications, and in 1889 the final Model 3 with wooden wheels was shown at the Paris Motor Show.Expo the same year.
Benz began selling this car (advertising it as the"Benz Patent Motorwagen") in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercial automobile in history. Motorwagen's second buyer was the Parisian bicycle manufacturer Emile Roger, who had been building Benz engines under license from Karl Benz for several years.
Roger added Benz cars (mostly built in France) to aline he operated in Paris, initially most of which were sold there.
Early versions of the 1888 Motorwagen had only two gears and could not climb hills without assistance. This restriction was removed after Bertha Benz took one of her vehicles on her famous long-distance drive and suggested to her husband to add a third gear for the climbs. Duringthis trip, she also invented brake pads.
The great demand for static combustion engines forced Karl Benz to expand the Mannheim factory,and in 1886 a new building was added on Waldhofstrasse (operating until 1908).
Benz & C. During this period, the number of employees increased from 50 in 1889 to 430 in 1899. Its size, 1899 Benz & Cie. It became a joint-stock company with the joining of Friedrich von Fischer and Julius Hans, who joined the board as members of the board of directors.
Hans worked in the commercialization department, somewhat like marketing in a modern corporation.
The new directors encouraged Benz to build a more affordable car suitable for mass production. In 1893, Karl Benz built a two-seater Victoria with a 2.2 kW (3.0 liter) engine and a chain tiller for steering.
The model was a success, with 85 sold in 1893. minat an average speed of -12.7 km/h (7.9 mph).
In 1895, Benz developed the first truck with an internal combustion engine.
Benz also built the first bus in 1895 for the Netphener bus company.
Benz "Velo" presentation in London 1898
In 1896 Karl Benz patented the first boxer engine design. It had horizontally spaced pistons, each designed to reach top dead center at the same time, balancing their momentum with each other.Flat engines with four or fewer cylinders are most commonly called boxer engines by German boxer motors, also called horizontally opposed engines. This design is still used today in some high-performance engines used in Porsche, Subaru andracing cars.
In motorcycles, the most famous boxer engine is found in BMW Motorrad, though the boxer engine design was used in many other models, including Victoria, Harley-Davidson XA, Zündapp, Wooler, Douglas Dragonfly, Ratier, Universal, IMZ-Ural, Dnepr, Gnome et Rhône, Chang Jiang, Marusho, and the Honda Gold Wing.
Although Gottlieb Daimler died in March 1900—and there is no evidence that Benz and Daimler knew each other nor that they knew about each other's early achievements—eventually, competition with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Stuttgart began to challenge the leadership of Benz & Cie. In October 1900, the main designer of DMG, Wilhelm Maybach, built the engine that would later be used in the Mercedes-35hp of 1902. The engine was built to the specifications of Emil Jellinek under a contract for him to purchase thirty-six vehicles with the engine, and for him to become a dealer of the special series. Jellinek stipulated the new engine be named Daimler-Mercedes (for his daughter).
Maybach retired from DMG in 1907, but developedthe model and all significant changes. After testing, the first was delivered to Jellinek on December 22,1900. Jellinek continued his proposal for a model change and over the next few years the auto racing produced good results, and DMG switchedto commercial car production. 1902. The
Benz was opposed by Parsifil, introduced in 1903 asa vertical twin with a top speed of 60 km/h (37 mph). Other directors then hired French designerswithout consulting Benz.
France was a country with a developed automobile industry based on Maybach's creations. After difficult discussions due to this action, Karl Benz announced his retirement from design management on 24 January 1903, but remained a member of the board after the merger with DMG in 1926 andremained on the board of the new Daimler. -. Benz Corporation until his death in 1929.
He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame and the European Automotive Hall of Fame in 1984.
Benz's sons Eugen and Richard left Benz & Cie. However, Richard returned to the company in 1904 as a car designer.
Sales of Benz & Cie in the same year. It reached 3,480 vehicles and left the company as the leading automobile manufacturer.
Benz & Cie., Karl Benz soon founded the privately owned automobile manufacturing company C. Benz Söhne (close relatives of his son Eugen and his family).
The brand name used the first initials of the French version of the name Benz "Karl".