| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Benz, Karl |
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(b nts) (KEY) , 1844–1929, German engineer, credited with building the first automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. The car, driven in Mannheim in 1885 and patented in 1886, had three wheels, an electric ignition, and differential gears and was water-cooled. As a result of a merger in 1926, Benz’s company became Daimler-Benz AG (now Daimler AG), the manufacturer of the Mercedes-Benz automobile. | 1 | | See St. J. C. Nixon, The Invention of the Automobile (Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler) (1936); E. Diesel, From Engine to Autos (tr. 1960). | 2 |
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