f t and he problem c German engineers ar in modern ventor ea several sible acknowledged were working internal sam generally e ti me Ger on many c ombustion made the use of 1885 in the engine for powering a vehicle. His first was built in Although other the at about the, is as the of

A photograph of the original first built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the conceptIn 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which had been designed in 1878. Many of his other inventions