Cars are used in your everyday lives if you have a license. You drive it to work, you take your friends and kids in it. How did these motorized vehicles come to life? It all starts with the very first car created and patented by karl benz.

Creator

Karl Benz was born on November 25, 1844, and died on April 4, 1929, and was the creator of the first gasoline automobile. He grew up in poverty but his mother gave him a good education. He pursued locomotive engineering following in his father’s footsteps. He studied mechanical engineering and once out of school got many jobs as a trainee. This is where he takes the rest of his life as an engineer.

Car

In 1833 he founded Benz and Company to produce engines. He started designing a motor carriage based on someone else’s patent. In 1855 the car was driven for the first time. It achieved eight miles per hour during the test drive. After receiving his patent for his gas-powered automobile he began selling it to the public in 1886. His wife promoted it even by taking it on a 66-mile trip. In 1893 there were 1,200 of these cars produced. It became the world’s first inexpensive mass-produced car.

This is considered the first car even though cars came before it. It gets this title because it’s the first gasoline car. Even though it’s not as fast as cars today it is the start of things to come.