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The birth or the beginning of a new era

Name: Marcus Motorwagen 1875
Brand: Marcus

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Created on December 14, 2011

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Daniel Reinhard

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Benz Patent Motor Car (1886) - Exhibition at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne in 1976

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Benz Patent Motor Car (1886) - Advertising illustration

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Benz Patent Motor Car (1886) - Gottlieb Daimler with his vehicle

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Carl Benz - Father of the patented motor car - November 25, 1844 to April 4, 1929

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Summary

Who really built the first automobile? Was it really Carl Benz who beat Gottlieb Daimler to the finish line? Or was it Siegfried Marcus who presented the first automobile 10 years earlier? This report shows the two first vehicles and sheds light on their backgrounds.

This article contains the following chapters

Three inventors
The first documented public drive
Did Marcus build the first automobile?
Siegfried Markcus, the unknown inventor

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Everything starts at some point. It is seldom possible to predict how much success or failure will result, or has resulted. Although more or less ingenious business plans are forged for everything today, everything "new" is always associated with risk. Three inventors Just as we turned our idea of Zwischengas into reality a year ago, three men worked on the first automobile over 125 years ago. They were the inventor Siegfried Marcus, who was born in Mecklenburg and worked in Vienna, and the two well-known German names Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. Marcus presented his motor car in Vienna in 1898 and then at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.

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