Carl Friedrich Benz (; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929), sometimes also Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer.
He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886. ==Early life== Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, on 25 November 1844 in Mühlburg, now a borough of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, which is part of modern Germany.
In 1853, at the age of nine, he started at the scientifically oriented Lyceum.
On 30 September 1860, at age 15, he passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering for the Karlsruhe polytechnical school, which he subsequently attended.
Benz graduated 9 July 1864 aged 19. Following his formal education, Benz had seven years of professional training in several companies, but did not fit well in any of them.
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 period to work at an iron construction company. ==Benz's first factory and early inventions (1871–1882)== In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop in Mannheim, later renamed Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working. The enterprise's first year went very badly.
The difficulty was overcome when Benz's fiancée, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter's share in the company using her dowry. On 20 July 1872, Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer married.
To get more revenue, in 1878 he began to work on new patents.
Benz finished his two-stroke engine on 31 December 1879, and was granted a patent for it on 28 June 1880. Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine.
Benz finished his two-stroke engine on 31 December 1879, and was granted a patent for it on 28 June 1880. Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine.
The company became the joint-stock company Gasmotoren Fabrik Mannheim in 1882. After all the necessary incorporation agreements, Benz was unhappy because he was left with merely five percent of the shares and a modest position as director.
Worst of all, his ideas weren't considered when designing new products, so he withdrew from that corporation just one year later, in 1883. ==Benz and Cie.
In 1883, the three founded a new company producing industrial machines:
His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical automobile put into series production.
He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886. ==Early life== Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, on 25 November 1844 in Mühlburg, now a borough of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, which is part of modern Germany.
Carl Friedrich Benz (; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929), sometimes also Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer.
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