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Karl Friedrich Benz
, was a
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engine designer and car
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, generally regarded as the inventor of the
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, and together with
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz was born on 3 May 1849 in Pforzheim, Germany. She married inventor Karl Benz on 20 July 1872, and died 5 May 1944 in Ladenburg...
pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...
. Other German contemporaries,
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf , in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development...
Wilhelm Maybach
Wilhelm Maybach
Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors"....
working as partners, also worked on similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but Benz
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ed his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the
internal combustion engine
Internal combustion engine
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feasible for use in cars. In 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first car.
Benz's Gasmotoren-Fabrik Mannheim (1882 to 1883)
Problems arose again when the
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s at Mannheim demanded that Bertha and Karl Benz's enterprise be
Incorporation (business)
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due to the high production costs it maintained. The Benz's were forced to improvise an association with
Emil Bühler and his brother (a
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merchant), in order to get additional bank support. 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 & Cie. and the Motorwagen
Benz Patent Motorwagen
Benz Patent Motorwagen
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen , built in 1886, is widely regarded as the first automobile, that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by a motor...
Three wheels
Tubular steel frame
Rack and pinion steering, connected to a driver end tiller; wheel chained to front axle
Electric ignition
Differential rear end gears
(mechanically operated inlet valves)
Water-cooled internal combustion engine
Gas or petrol four-stroke horizontally mounted engine
Single cylinder, Bore 116 mm, Stroke 160 mm
Patent model: 958 cc, 0.8 hp, 600 W, 16 km/h
Commercialized model: 1600 cc, ¾ hp, 8 mi/h
Benz's lifelong
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brought him to a bicycle repair shop in Mannheim owned by Max Rose and Friedrich Wilhelm Eßlinger. In 1883, the three founded a new company producing industrial machines:
Benz & Company Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik
, usually referred to as,
Benz & Cie.
Quickly growing to twenty-five employees, it soon began to produce static
gas engine
Gas engine
A gas engine means an engine running on a gas, such as coal gas, producer gas biogas, landfill gas, or natural gas. In the UK, the term is unambiguous...
s as well.
The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a
horseless carriage
. Based on his experience with, and fondness for, bicycles, he used similar technology when he created an
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages' wooden ones)
with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Power was transmitted by means of two
roller chain
Roller chain
Roller chain or bush roller chain is the type of chain drive most commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of domestic, industrial and agricultural machinery, including conveyors, wire and tube drawing machines, printing presses, cars, motorcycles, and simple machines like...
s to the rear axle. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885 and named it the
Benz Patent Motorwagen
Benz Patent Motorwagen
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen , built in 1886, is widely regarded as the first automobile, that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by a motor...
It was the first
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized stage coach or horse carriage, which is why Karl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as its inventor.
was patented on January 29, 1886 as
DRP-37435: "automobile fueled by gas"
. The 1885 version was difficult to control, leading to a collision with a wall during a public demonstration. The first successful tests on public roads were carried out in the early summer of 1886. The next year Benz created the
Motorwagen Model 2
which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive
Model 3
with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.
Benz began to sell the vehicle (advertising it as the
Benz Patent Motorwagen
) in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history. The second customer of the Motorwagen was a Parisian
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manufacturer Emile Roger who had already been building Benz
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s under
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from Karl Benz for several years. Roger added the Benz automobiles (many built in France) to the line he carried in
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and initially most were sold there.
Early customers could only buy gasoline from pharmacies that sold small quantities as a cleaning product. The early-1888 version of the
had no gears and could not climb hills unaided. This limitation was rectified after
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz was born on 3 May 1849 in Pforzheim, Germany. She married inventor Karl Benz on 20 July 1872, and died 5 May 1944 in Ladenburg...
made her famous trip driving one of the vehicles a great distance and suggested to her husband the addition of another gear.
An important part in the Benz story is this
first long distance automobile trip
, where entrepreneurial Bertha Benz, supposedly without the knowledge of her husband, on the morning of August 5, 1888, took this vehicle on a 106 km (65.9 mi) trip from Mannheim to
Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Until 1565 it was the home to the Margraves of Baden. Because of that it gained the nickname...
to visit her mother, taking her sons Eugen and Richard with her. In addition to having to locate pharmacies on the way to fuel up, she repaired various technical and mechanical problems and invented brake lining. After some longer downhill slopes she ordered a shoemaker to nail leather on the brake blocks. Bertha Benz and sons finally arrived at nightfall, announcing the achievement to Karl by telegram. It had been her intention to demonstrate the feasibility of using the Benz Motorwagen for travel and to obtain
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that would make people aware of it, in the manner now referred to as, live marketing. Today the event is celebrated every two years in Germany with an antique automobile rally. In 2008
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg and member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage...
was officially approved as a route of industrial heritage of mankind, because it follows Bertha Benz's tracks of the world's first long-distance journey by automobile in 1888. Now everybody can follow the 194 km of signposted route from
Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
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Black Forest
Black Forest
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) and back.
Model 3
made its wide-scale debut to the world in the 1889
World's Fair
World's Fair
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, and about twenty-five
were built between 1886 and 1893.
Benz & Cie. expansion
The great demand for stationary, static internal combustion engines forced Karl Benz to enlarge the factory in Mannheim, and in 1886 a new building located on Waldhofstrasse (operating until 1908) was added.
Benz & Cie.
had grown in the interim from 50 employees in 1889 to 430 in 1899.
During the last years of the nineteenth century,
was the largest automobile company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899.
Because of its size, in 1899,
Benz & Cie.
became a joint-stock company with the arrival of Friedrich von Fischer and Julius Ganß, who came aboard as members of the
Board of Management
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
. Ganß worked in the commercialization department, which is somewhat similar to
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
in contemporary corporations.
The new directors recommended that Benz should create a less expensive automobile suitable for
mass production
Mass production
Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines...
. In 1893, Karl Benz created the
Benz Viktoria
The Benz Viktoria was a car made by the Benz motor company from 1892 to 1898.It sold in large numbers across Germany when it was first sold in 1892....
, a two-passenger automobile with a 3-
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engine, which could reach the top speed of 11 mph and had a
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al front
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operated by a
Roller chain
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A tiller or till is a lever attached to a rudder post or rudder stock of a boat that provides leverage for the helmsman to turn the rudder...
Steering is the term applied to the collection of components, linkages, etc. which will allow a vessel or vehicle to follow the desired course...
. The model was successful with 85 units sold in 1893.
The Benz
also participated in the first automobile race, the 1894
Paris to Rouen Rally
In 1895, Benz designed the first
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in history, with some of the units later modified by the first motor
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company: the
, becoming the first motor buses in history.
In 1896, Karl Benz was granted a
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for his design of the first
flat engine
Flat engine
A flat engine is an internal combustion engine with multiple pistons that move in a horizontal plane. Typically, the layout has cylinders arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft and is sometimes known as the boxer, or horizontally opposed engine. The concept was patented in 1896...
. It had horizontally opposed
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s, a design in which the corresponding pistons reach top dead centre simultaneously, thus balancing each other with respect to
In classical mechanics, linear momentum or translational momentum is the product of the mass and velocity of an object...
. Flat engines with four or fewer cylinders are most commonly called
in German, and also are known as
horizontally opposed engines
. This design is still used by
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; is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries .Subaru is internationally known for their use of the boxer engine layout popularized in cars by the Volkswagen Beetle and Porsche 911, in most of their vehicles above 1500 cc as well as...
, and some high performance engines used in
racing cars
Racing Cars
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. In motorcycles, the most famous boxer engine is found in BMW motorcycles, though the boxer engine design was used in many other models, including
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, Wooler,
Douglas Dragonfly
Douglas Dragonfly
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Ratier-Figeac ia an aircraft components manufacturer in Montrouge, France.From 1926 until 1930 it also built a car with a 746 cc overhead camshaft engine....
, Universal,
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Gnome et Rhône
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, Chang Jiang,
was a company that manufactured motorcycles from 1948 to 1967. The company's Lilac model motorcycle garnered attention when it was recognized as one of the 180 best pieces of engineering in Japan .-History:...
, and the Honda Gold Wing.
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf , in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development...
died in March 1900—and there is no evidence that Benz and
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf , in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development...
knew each other nor that they knew about each other's early achievements—eventually, competition with
Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft
Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was a German engine and later automobile manufacturer, in operation from 1890 until 1926. Founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, it was based first in Cannstatt...
(DMG) in
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
began to challenge the leadership of Benz & Cie. In October 1900 the main designer of DMG,
Wilhelm Maybach
Wilhelm Maybach
Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors"....
, built the engine that would be used later, in the
of 1902. The engine was built to the specifications of
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first 'modern' car...
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-
(for his daughter). Maybach would quit DMG in 1907, but he designed the model and all of the important changes. After testing, the first was delivered to Jellinek on December 22, 1900. Jellinek continued to make suggestions for changes to the model and obtained good results racing the automobile in the next few years, encouraging DMG to engage in commercial production of automobiles, which they did in 1902.
Benz countered with
, introduced in 1903 with a vertical twin engine that achieved a top speed of 37 mi/h. Then, without consulting Benz, the other directors hired some French designers. France was a country with an extensive automobile industry based on Maybach's creations. Because of this action, after difficult discussions, Karl Benz announced his retirement from design management on January 24, 1903, although he remained as director on the Board of Management through its merger with DMG in 1926 and, remained on the board of the new Daimler-Benz corporation until his death in 1929.
Benz's sons Eugen and Richard left Benz & Cie. in 1903, but Richard returned to the company in 1904 as the designer of passenger vehicles.
That year, sales of Benz & Cie. reached 3,480 automobiles, and the company remained the leading manufacturer of automobiles.
Along with continuing as a director of Benz & Cie., Karl Benz soon would found another company—with his son, Eugen—closely held within the family, manufacturing automobiles under another brand and using a French spelling variant of Benz's first name for the first initial of the privately held company (
discussion in the next section).
Blitzen Benz
In 1909, the
Blitzen Benz
was built in Mannheim by Benz & Cie. The bird-beaked vehicle had a 21.5-liter (1312ci), 200 hp engine, and on November 9, 1909 in the hands of
Victor Hémery
Victor Hémery
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of France, the
land speed racer
Land speed record
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, set a record of 226.91 km/h (141.94 mph), said to be "faster than any plane, train, or automobile" at the time, a record that was not exceeded for ten years by any other vehicle. It was transported to several countries, including the United States, to establish multiple records of this achievement.
Benz Söhne (1906 to 1923)
Karl Benz, Bertha Benz, and their son, Eugen, moved 10 km east of Mannheim to live in nearby
Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Neckar, 10 km east of Mannheim, and 10 km northwest of Heidelberg.It has an old town from the Late Middle Ages...
, and solely with their own capital, founded the private company, C. Benz Sons (German:
Benz Söhne
) in 1906, producing automobiles and gas engines. The latter type was replaced by petrol engines because lack of demand.
This company never issued stocks publicly, building its own line of automobiles independently from Benz & Cie., which was located in Mannheim. The
Benz Sons
automobiles were of good quality and became popular in
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In 1912, Karl Benz liquidated all of his shares in
Benz Sons
and left this family-held company in Ladenburg to Eugen and Richard, but he remained as a director of Benz & Cie.
During a birthday celebration for him in his home town of
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on November 25, 1914, the seventy year-old Karl Benz was awarded an honorary
Honorary degree
An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, study, and the passing of examinations...
by his alma mater, the
Karlsruhe University
, thereby becoming—Dr. Ing. h. c. Karl Benz.
Almost from the very beginning of the production of automobiles, participation in
sports car racing
Sports car racing
Sports car racing is a form of circuit auto racing with automobiles that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built or related to road-going sports cars....
became a major method to gain publicity for manufacturers. At first, the production models were raced and the Benz
participated in the first automobile race: Paris to Rouen 1894. Later, investment in developing racecars for motorsports produced returns through sales generated by the association of the name of the automobile with the winners. Unique race vehicles were built at the time, as seen in the photograph here of the Benz, the first mid-engine and aerodynamically designed,
, a "teardrop" body introduced at the 1923
European Grand Prix
European Grand Prix
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Autodromo Nazionale Monza
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In the last production year of the
Benz Sons
company, 1923, three hundred and fifty units were built. During the following year, 1924, Karl Benz built two additional 8/25 hp units of the automobile manufactured by this company, tailored for his personal use, which he never sold; they are still preserved.
and the first
in 1926
The German economic crisis worsened. In 1923
Benz & Cie.
produced only 1,382 units in Mannheim, and
made only 1,020 in Stuttgart. The average cost of an automobile was 25 million
German papiermark
The name Papiermark is applied to the German currency from the 4th August 1914 when the link between the Mark and gold was abandoned, due to the outbreak of World War I...
because of rapid inflation. Negotiations between the two companies resumed and in 1924 they signed an
Agreement of Mutual Interest
valid until the year 2000. Both enterprises standardized design, production, purchasing, sales, and advertising—marketing their automobile models jointly—although keeping their respective brands.
On June 28, 1926, Benz & Cie. and DMG finally merged as the
Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines; founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until year 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, which had...
company, baptizing all of its automobiles,
Mercedes Benz
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...
, honoring the most important model of the DMG automobiles, the
1902 Mercedes-35hp
, along with the Benz name. The name of that DMG model had been selected after ten-year-old
Mercedes Jellinek
Mércédès Jellinek
Mercédès Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek called Mercédès was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born on September 16, 1889 and named as a term of endearment Mercedes...
, the daughter of
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first 'modern' car...
who had set the specifications for the new model. Between 1900 and 1909 he was a member of DMG's board of management and long before the merger Jellinek had resigned.
Karl Benz was a member of the new
Daimler Benz
board of management for the remainder of his life. A new
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...
was created, consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's
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"engines for land, air, and water"
) surrounded by traditional
Bay Laurel
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from the Benz logo, and the brand of all of its automobiles was labeled
Mercedes Benz
. Model names would follow the brand name in the same convention as today.
The next year, 1927, the number of units sold
to 7,918 and the
Diesel engine
A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber...
line was launched for truck production. In 1928 the
Mercedes-Benz SSK
Mercedes-Benz SSK
The Mercedes-Benz SSK is a roadster built by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz between 1928 and 1932. Its name is an acronym of Super Sport Kurz, German for "Super Sport Short", as it was a short wheelbase development of the earlier Mercedes-Benz S...
was presented.
On April 4, 1929, Karl Benz died at home in Ladenburg at the age of eighty-four from a
bronchial inflammation
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. Until her death on May 5, 1944,
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz was born on 3 May 1849 in Pforzheim, Germany. She married inventor Karl Benz on 20 July 1872, and died 5 May 1944 in Ladenburg...
continued to reside in their last home. Members of the family resided in the home for thirty more years. The Benz home now has been designated as
Historic preservation
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and is used as a scientific meeting facility for a nonprofit foundation, the
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation
, that honors both Bertha and Karl Benz for their roles in the history of automobiles.
In popular culture
In 2011 a dramatized television movie about the life of Karl and Bertha Benz was made named
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which premiered on 11 May and was aired by
Das Erste
Das Erste
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on 23 May. A trailer of the movie and a "making of" special were released on YouTube.
See also
Benz (unit)
Benz (unit)
A benz is a traditional German unit of velocity, equal to 1 metre per second.The name is in honor of Karl Benz, inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile....
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz was born on 3 May 1849 in Pforzheim, Germany. She married inventor Karl Benz on 20 July 1872, and died 5 May 1944 in Ladenburg...
, his wife and automotive pioneer
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg and member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage...
German inventors and discoverers
German inventors and discoverers
This is a list of German inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Germany or German-speaking Europe, also of people of predominantly German heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname. The main section includes existing articles, indicated by blue links, and possibly...
History of the internal combustion engine
History of the internal combustion engine
Although various forms of internal combustion engines were developed before the 19th century, their use was hindered until the commercial drilling and production of petroleum began in the mid-1850s...
External links
Brief biographies of
Karl Benz
Bertha Benz
, with portraits, an extensive archive, and detailed histories presented at the
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Mercedes-Benz corporate archives
, company archives
, history
, media management archives
, and publications
copies of the honorary doctorate
Baden State medal in gold
, both awarded to Karl Benz in his lifetime.
Das Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz in der alten Benz Fabrik
is the
Dr. Carl Benz Auto Museum
created by a private group in 1996
in a former Benz factory for an ancillary business founded with his sons in
Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Neckar, 10 km east of Mannheim, and 10 km northwest of Heidelberg.It has an old town from the Late Middle Ages...
, which was separate from his major companies. The company opened in 1906 and closed in 1923, the site has a description of this museum and contemporary photographs
with "C. Benz SÖHNE KG" painted on the building, which contains historical photographs, some restored automobiles, and a
of the life of Karl Benz
Karl Benz on 3-wheelers.com
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
Prof. John H. Lienhard on BERTHA Benz's RIDE
The Karl Benz family grave site in Ladenburg
The urn contains the ashes of their son, Richard Benz, and the inscription on the gravestone reads:
Dr. Ing. h. c. Karl Benz
Geb. 26. Nov. 1844
Gest. 4. April 1929
Bertha Benz
Geb. Ringer
Geb. 3. Mai 1849
Gest. 4. Mai 1944
Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation
founded in 1986 at the last residence of Bertha and Karl Benz in Ladenburg.


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If you're a victim of an aggressive coyote, you've only yourself to blame
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Coyotes are smart. Very smart. And they appear to be winning the evolutionary race in Metro Denver and in other big cities, where they have adapted quite nicely to urban living. The losers are over-bred, pampered, city-dwelling dogs and cats, and urban humans appear to be next on the menu. Their eyesight is excellent, their hearing remarkable, and their olfactory abilities outstanding. They are clever pack hunters with well-established tactical plans. And those plans now include humans and urban pets. I'm fine with that. They deserve their victory, if they can seize it, because urban humans and their pets have given up their right to evolutionary survival by giving up their ability to defend themselves against predators, both animal and human.
I can't say I blame the coyotes, because in this case, it seems as if there is a free lunch, and it's a classic case of knee-jerk urbanites being hoist on their own petard. Back in 1996 mostly-urban bunny-hugging "animal rights" sympathizers voted to pass a trapping ban in Colorado. Up until then, coyotes were kept reasonably under control, wary, human-averse and primarily rural by a significant trapping and hunting industry. Any rancher will tell you that rural coyotes don't hang around when a human shows up. They beat it for cover as fast as they can because they've learned, over generations, that humans are dangerous top-of-the-food-chain predators that can kill coyotes from a long way off.
It's actually kind of amusing to see all the hysteria and clamor for government to "do something" about urban coyotes when it's the urban citizens who tied the hands of government and private individuals in the first place. These urban voters are beginning to receive in full measure that which they demanded more than a decade ago. Such is the law of unintended consequences.
But, lest I be accused of too much insensitivity to the plight of urbanites, I do have some suggestions. Here's the primary one: when faced with an aggressive, and possibly rabid urban coyote or coyote pack, do what we out here in the country do: kill them.
"How do we do this" you ask? Simple. Get a gun, and when attacked, shoot. "But" you declaim, "the police tell me I can't discharge a firearm in the city limits without breaking the law!" Poppycock, I reply. Ignore what the police tell you, they're just trying to make their own jobs easier, not provide you with protection or accurate legal advice.
The simple legal truth (don't believe me, go look it up) is that so long as you have a reasonable belief that you are in danger, you are permitted to shoot an animal in self-defense, anywhere in the state. I don't know about you, but I certainly view an attack by a coyote to be placing me in danger, in no small part because it's likely that the animal is rabid. And if it's more than one, why, being attacked by a pack of vicious, aggressive coyotes is certainly a danger, and I doubt any reasonable jury would disagree.
Now, you do have to be quite careful when discharging a firearm in the city, because you ARE responsible for every bullet and where it ends up, and you'll get no sympathy from me if you use your gun carelessly and hurt others or damage private property, so don't think I'm calling for mindless gun-play in the parks, alleys and trails, I'm not.
In order to reduce the chances of stray bullets causing harm, I have a specific recommendation for those of you who decide that being a victim of an aggressive coyote is not something you care to allow: Buy a Taurus Judge pistol chambered in .45 Colt/ .410 shotshell. MSRP $569.00, available at a fine gun store near you.
This unique pistol is dual-chambered so that it can fire both a standard pistol round for self-defense against humans and large animals, and the .410 shotshell, which is effective at short range against humans and smaller animals, like coyotes. It's a compromise firearm for sure, but loaded with two rounds of .410 birdshot and three rounds of .45 Colt pistol ammunition, it provides deterrence and protection against human attack while also allowing the user to defend against aggressive animals without so much worry about stray bullets causing harm. The harmful range of bird-shot from the pistol is probably less than 25 yards.
It's impossible that even the most aggressive coyote is going to stick around after being peppered with birdshot. The spread pattern of the shot at 7 yards is well over six feet, which means that precise aiming is not necessary to get deterrent hits on the animal. Let it get within 4 yards or so and let him have it.
Oh, and make sure that if you shoot to protect your dog, you tell the jury (not the cops, remember your right to remain silent!) that you thought the animal was attacking YOU, because unfortunately, you're not allowed to discharge a firearm to protect your pet in a city. Do remember the spread, and try not to shoot your dog too!
Of course, don't forget to go to your local Sheriff and get your concealed handgun permit first. You wouldn't want to get knicked for a concealed weapon violation while doing the right thing for society. For the best concealed handgun class I know of in the Denver Metro area, contact Rich Wyatt at Gunsmoke, 9690 West 44th Ave. Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033, (303) 456-4545. He's worth the trip north for Colorado Springs residents.
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This is the 56th episode of my season "Best of the Day". In the season "Best of the Day" I'm making a short video about the NHL Gamedays.
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Montreal Canadiens 1 - 6 Ottawa Senators (Series 1 - 2)
Chicago Blackhawks 2 - 3 Minnesota Wild (Final OT) (Series 2 - 1)
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On the right there is complete, indeed even gleeful, agreement of this dismal portrait, imagery of fast, losing ground, except that the road to racial hell has been paved by the very policies intended to help to solve the problem are painted by the dream and the nightmare of cultural changes in the 60s and overbreeding and educational integration of the inferior African - Americans and low class whites and genetically situated on the wrong tail of the IQ bell curve. [LAUGHTER]
If it is true that a racial crisis persists in America, this crisis is as much born of perception and interpretation as of actual socioeconomic inter-ethnic realities. The source of this misperception varies. There is first the tendency to racialize all problems, problems that are essentially class problems inevitably become redefined as racial problems.
We have a problem of inequality in this country. The levels of inequality have been increasing and they are obscene when one contrasts the income of the average chief executive with the average worker, but this cuts across all ethnic groups. This is not a race problem, this is a problem of American economy and American society and America's attitude towards distribution of this income.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
From staff and news services
First-time bear hunter bags record 699-pounder
Maine officials say a hunter has shot a record large bear in Greenville Junction.
The 699-pound bear broke a nearly 20-year record.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says the bear was shot by Matt Knox, of Waynesboro, Pa., who visited the state last week for his first bear hunt.
The previous record-holder was a 680-pound bear taken in 1993.
State biologists have predicted a strong season for bear hunters. Officials now say this year's dryness and lack of berry and nut crops might mean that bigger bears will be searching of food.
Lake Region High senior identified as crash victim
Authorities have identified the Lake Region High School student who died in a single car crash last week on Kansas Road in Bridgton.
Austin J. Sloat, a senior at the school, was killed in the Sept. 5 crash.
Kathleen Beecher, superintendent of schools for School Administrative District 61, said high school students held a moment of silence last Friday for the 17-year-old.
Beecher said a celebration of Sloat's life was held Tuesday at the Crooked River School in Casco. Beecher said family and friends have erected a memorial cross at the crash site.
Bridgton Police Chief Kevin Schofield could not be reached but Schofield told the Bridgton News that the investigation into the crash is not complete.
Schofield told the newspaper that a second vehicle has been impounded by police. The chief would not elaborate.
A press release issued by Bridgton police said that excessive speed contributed to the accident, which took place at 2:15 p.m.
Businessman, NASCAR fan humanitarian award finalist
The owner of Windham Automotive is a finalist for a humanitarian award from the NASCAR Foundation for his work raising money for Camp Sunshine in Casco.
Ronald Eby, 53, of Windham was one of four finalists selected for the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award for NASCAR fans who help children through charity work in their communities.
For being a finalist, he received $25,000 for his chosen charity, Camp Sunshine, a retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
Eby, whose daughter contracted meningitis when she was 2 years old and recovered, started raising money for Camp Sunshine by selling Mexican food off a flatbed truck at Windham's Summerfest.
He since has inspired others to raise money for the charity.
The winner of the award will be announced on Dec. 2 at a banquet in Las Vegas and will receive $100,000 for a charity.
To learn more about the finalists and vote for a winner, visit nascar.com/award.
Accused in hit-run fatality pleads not guilty to charges
A Brewer woman has pleaded not guilty to striking and killing a pedestrian with her car in Bangor, then driving away from the scene.
Patricia Giles remains free on $10,000 bail after entering her plea Wednesday to charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and falsifying evidence.
Police say Giles, 51, struck and killed Joshua Constantine, 37, of Bangor as he was crossing Main Street about 10:30 p.m. June 2. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Giles then allegedly drove away before turning herself into police about a week later.
Her lawyer says she was shaken up by the incident. Prosecutors say there is no evidence she was driving impaired and no evidence of negligence.
Maine hospitals to feel impact of Medicare cuts
Maine's hospitals could lose hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs if proposed federal cuts are made.
The Maine Hospital Association said Wednesday that Medicare cuts called for under the federal deficit reduction plan would cost Maine $21 million and nearly 3,000 jobs in 2013. The cuts are scheduled to continue until 2021.
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We should all answer the call for national day of service Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'" This year, MLK Day commemorations will coincide with the Presidential Inauguration, so the President is asking all citizens to join him in participating in a National Day of Service on Saturday. President Obama made national service a key part of his first inauguration in 2009, also tying it to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the region and the country turned out to …
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Here are the results for the Pirates prospects from the Arizona Fall League action today.
**Adalberto Santos went 0-for-2 with two walks. Santos started in left field.
**Gift Ngoepe went 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts.
**Tyler Waldron pitched an inning, allowing two runs on two hits, with a walk, no strikeouts, and a home run. Waldron threw 23 pitches, with 13 strikes.
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An extra set of Tango icons that is usable on Gnome. WWW: http://tango-project.org/
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only required dependencies information. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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Counties adjacent to Johnson County are Washington County (north), Jefferson County (northeast), Emanuel County (east), Treutlen County (south), Laurens County (southwest), Wilkinson County (west).
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Abstract:The magnetization in hyperpolarized gas (HP) MRI is generated by laser polarization that is independent of the magnet and imaging process. As a consequence, there is no equilibrium magnetization during the image acquisition. The competing processes of gas inflow and depolarization of the spins lead to large changes in signal as one samples k-space. A model is developed of dynamic changes in polarization of hyperpolarized 3He during infusion and in vivo imaging of the lung and verified experimentally in a live guinea pig. Projection encoding is used to measure the view-to-view variation with temporal resolution < 4 ms. Large excitation angles effectively sample the magnetization in the early stages of inflow, highlighting larger airways, while smaller excitation angles produce images of the more distal spaces. The work provides a basis for pulse sequences designed to effectively exploit HP MRI in the lung.
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Looking down from Conic Hill, although it also looks a bit like looking up...
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Date Taken: | 22 Jan 2011 - 1:21 PM |
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That's How This Man Sees It With Gary McCoy – The LSU Fan
Hi, my name is Gary and I'm an addict. I've had this problem since about 1979 but it's really gotten worse over the last 20 years. I am an LSUFOOTBALLAHOLIC and I'm betting it's terminal. See, I got bit by the LSU football bug a long time ago and there's really no cure. I'm pretty sure that even if there was, I don't want to kick the habit. Now, I'm not as bad as some of my buddies, who would go so far as to have the game on in the delivery room WHILE their wife is rythmically breathing and pushing to introduce a new Tiger fan to all the purple and gold clad family members ganged up around another big screen in the waiting area. I even have one buddy who's last name is Underwood. He actually named his daughter Lisa Suzanne. If you can't figure what her initials are, you might be an Alabama graduate. Speaking of Alabama. You know what you do when an Alabama graduate knocks on your door? You pay him for the pizza! Okay, back to me and this habit. I have made several concessions in my life so that I wouldn't miss the game. You know those years when Halloween falls on a Saturday night and LSU happens to be playing that night too? Hey, the McCoy boys wear their LSU jerseys as costumes with football helmets for bags and actually trick or treat from the back of my pickup while Daddy Tiger listens to the game on the radio. We hit a couple of neighborhoods as fast as we can and I try to park in front of houses where I can see the TV through their front window. Course, the minute their helmets are full, which is usually right about half time, we're off to someone's game day party and I get to finish things on a 60 inch plasma. It's bad. I broke a tooth just before the big Alabama game one year and actually super glued it back in to hold me until Monday so I wouldn't miss out. My dentist suggested I seek psychiatric help. I fell out of a deer stand one year the morning of the Tennesse game. Broke a couple ribs. Did I go to the hospital and miss the game? No way. Took a couple pain pills, parked myself on the couch at the deer camp and enjoyed every minute of it. Course, the pain pills wore off by the 4th quarter and since it looked like we had this one in the bag and Les Miles didn't need me to offer any more long distance defensive suggestions, I caved in and made the longest drive to the emergency room I've ever taken. And we LSU fans have taken tailgating to an entirely new dimension. Anywhere in Baton Rouge on game day, there's enough food to feed the starving nations 3 squares daily for the next 20 years. And I'm talking good food…red beans and rice. Gumbo. Jambalaya. Fried fish or shrimp. And chili good enough to win any cookoff any day in Texas. I'm betting that if there was ever an official inventory done on game day, there's probably 100 billion dollars worth of RV's and red solo cups within a half mile of Death Valley. It's almost like an upscale FEMA park for The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Okay; rich and famous and really drunk. Oh, and one more thing if you happen to not bleed purple and gold. We LSU fans have been accused a time or two of being arrogant. It's not true. We're just better than you. Course, that's just how this man sees it! Geaux Tigers!