The automobile.
I've always thought Henry Ford was the inventor of the automobile. Today, I discovered a few historical facts about the automobile. Henry Ford's Model T was introduced on October 01st, 1908, almost one hundred years ago, now.
Nicholas August Otto developed the gasoline engine in the 1870s and Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine in the 1890s.
So, who really invented the automobile?
It was Karl Benz of Germany, who in 1885, designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler, another German, was also a pioneer of the internal-combustion engine and automobile development. Together with his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach, they founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in 1890 and sold their first automobile two years later in 1892.
Emil Jellinek sat on the board of directors of the DMG and specified that the engine created by Wilhelm Maybach be named "Mercedes", after his daughter, Mercedes Jellinek.
Today, we know the name Mercedes-Benz very well. The Mercedes 35 hp early car was designed in 1901 by Maybach in Stuttgart, Germany and produced by the DMG.
