Karl Friedrich Benz

Karl Friedrich Benz (German: Carl Frederic Banks) (and. — 1929) A German inventor who started to develop single propulsion engines and succeeded in making the first car to use gasoline combustion. His company union with rival Daimler was a first step on the road to the birth of the world's largest and oldest car company.

Early life,

Karl Benz was born on November 25, 1844, in Karlsruhe, Germany, and his father was a train driver, and this helped him to get to know the world of transport at an early age, and he was interested in technology, and he was very interested in this field, and when he finished high school he entered the technical school and obtained a diploma in engineering in 1864.

Professional life

Carl Benz, twenty-five years old, in 1869 (collection of Zeno dot Verlagsgesellschaft MPH),

He worked in many factories, he moved between them, and in different cities like Karlsruhe,

 

Mannheim, Fortes Heim, over a period of seven years, and he had all along dreamed of having his own factory, and he always saw himself in this picture, a distinguished factory owner, and in 1871,

Karl Benz started with a colleague of his little machine repair shop, but he didn't hold, and left this company after a year of work, He was alone for five years, during which he developed a two-valve engine, but his repeated attempts failed.

He faced many difficulties. He spent many hours in his work, with rare determination, and strange persistence. Karl succeeded on December 31, 1879, after solving many obstacles and problems that impeded his first engine. [1].

Establishing a Motor Company,

This success prompted Karl Benz to establish a company in 1882, where he managed the production of fuel engines, which was an adventurous first class gas, and his love for adventure and constant development led him to establish another company with two friends in 1883 in Mannheim, who aspired to develop the engine with valves so that it could be used in motor vehicles, but this ambition was met with his partners refusing the idea, 

They considered it a great risk that could not succeed, but a gas that didn't despair, but grew determination and determination, and a lonely adventurer, worked hard and determined until he succeeded in designing a car engine and managed to build a person, and he was able to get the engine to push the rear wheels forward with the power of the engine, using iron chains and rubber belts, and even though the first car of petrol that was shown to the public ran against a wall and was destroyed,

He overcame Karl Benz's insistence on designing a durable and reliable car until 1899 ranked first in the world's automotive industry.

Design the first car,

On January 29, 1886, a German engineer named Carke Friedrich Benz of the Caesarea Patent Office in Germany, won a patent with the number 37435, giving him full rights to work on developing the first car based on gasoline combustion. 

This engineer and the technician, born in 1844 in the southern German city of Karlsruhe, was a high-tech mechanical enthusiast ever since he was born. 

 After his father's death, Benns went to the Polytechnic Institute in Karlsruhe for study and, through his experiments at the Institute, he laid the foundation stone for an alternative steam vehicle engine.

After completing the study, the working life of the young engineer at Karlsruhe, Manheim and Forestheim began.

In 1871, Benns took a bold step to establish a company called Mechanical Factories. At that time, Benz pursued the innovation and development of gas engines and worked to improve their performance. And then he started to take care of fuel combustion engines. [2]

Single-drive

Meanwhile, Benz is beginning to invent the first single-drive. 

The engineer then started working on a motor vehicle. 

While his competitors, Cot lip Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, focused on making many-purpose engines, Benz has taken an interest in the future car.

At the beginning of 1885, the engineer was able to design a motor and put it in a three-tires vehicle.

Benz  writes in his memoirs that people “gathered in the city of Mannheim to see this carriage and could only laugh and laugh at it.” Benz adds: “People were right then.

Why sit in this unsafe and annoying box while many horses are available for transportation and meeting needs? “One of the people who gathered at the roadside in Mannheim even suggested throwing the box (cart) in the Necker River, on which the city lies on its banks”.

Victoria's cart.

Benz later faced significant financial difficulties and banks and financiers refused to continue with his financial assistance. 

After Benz refused to accept the bank's request to transform its company into a joint-stock company, the bank declined to continue financing.

He left the company and founded a new company called Benz and its partners, Seven years later, the company has become the world's largest car manufacturer. 

Next, Benz developed the three-frame Victoria van. And the engineer kept developing Victoria so much that it began to reach 40 kilometers per hour. 

The Velo model, built on the Victoria cart, sold 1,200 copies. Later on, Benz specialized in the automobile industry and founded the Landenbork Motor Company Benz and its children. In 1914, Benz witnessed the automotive industry revolution, which forced him to merge his company with the competing company Daimler, and since then it has become Daimler-Benz.

Develop Mercedes engines,

In the spring of 1890, a four-sealendar engine was invented by Maybach, and used for boats. 

The Daimler engine was named, and a Hungarian businessman bought 36 racing cars from Daimler in 1900. 

He required that these cars be called his daughter, Mercedes. The invention was helped by Benz and Daimler together, as they were able to develop their work and transportation significantly.

Benz-Daimler

Daimler founded on November 28, 1890, an institution he registered in Stuttgart, and his partner was Max Dontohofer and Wilhelm Lawrence, and on March 18, 1895, Benz invented Mannheim, the world's first bus, and he went on to work in the cities of Zigan, Netvin, and Dotes, and the same year the first car race was organized by the United States, and the race was he went from Chicago to Waukegan and lost the race's bronze, the only driver who could finish the race was Oscar Müller.

Daimler continued to evolve, and Benz has always been looking for the development of its engines and cars. In 1905, 

Daimler's F-Car invented the F-Car Model, which brought about a quantum leap in car design and competition among car manufacturers, and there was a near revolution in the automotive world in several countries, the most important of which is: United States.

World War I was a devastating blow to German companies. Meanwhile, Henry Ford launched his first car, which was a great success with its design and prices hitting the markets. 

Under this pressure, Benz and Daimler officials agreed to merge the two companies, which took place in 1926, and that marked a new beginning for qualitative leaps in the car world.

In 1900, Daimler recommended that his car be named after his daughter, Mercedes. Otherwise, we would be talking about Daimler's car, and no one knew what the meaning of Mercedes was. Likewise, Benz's decision to merge with Daimler was three years before his death, and certainly this integration played an important role in developing a Mercedes-Benz Top.

Mercedes between excellence and glory

At the same time, Hitler chose luxury Mercedes as the official state. Mercedes-Benz also began manufacturing engines and military aircraft during World War II. 

 The company suffered heavy losses after Allied aircraft destroyed most of its factories.

Mercedes started to occupy a prestigious position in the world of cars, and it was sold widely, especially among the rich, and sometimes it's called the luxury car.

In 1960, the company started strengthening its position in the world of trucks and engines, where Mercedes-Benz gave the car industry a huge momentum, and the innovations added to the Mercedes were great, as it was the first to roll out the Air Armor Bag and Sand Giant Ti-Lock plus secure chassis.

Death,

Daimler died on March 6, 1900, at the age of 65, in the city of Leidnburk. In 1901, one of Daimler's cars won the race, and Daimler officially registered the name of Mercedes, according to his will. So he died without meeting Karl Benz, but on the same line.

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