[스크랩] [車] 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen

1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen

 

 

 

On 29 January 1886, German engineer, Karl Benz, was issued with an official

Government patent for his petrol-engined three-wheeled vehicle with a tiller,

which he described as a "motor" car.

It was spindly, on its large bicycle-like wheels; the single-cylinder engine of

984cc produced less than one horsepower (0.7 kW) at 400 revs a minute.

You could almost out-jog its top-speed of 15km/h.

But it was the start of something big.

Since 1886, an estimated 15,000 different firms have attempted to launch

motor vehicles around the world.

Motor cars and motorised transport have re-shaped our cities, our industries,

our work and social patterns and our families.

Houses, suburbs and whole cities have been designed to accommodate our

seemingly insatiable appetite for the motor vehicle.

In 1985, in a joint operation between training centres all over West Germany,

Daimler-Benz built 11 replicas of the first 1886 Benz to celebrate the 1986

centenary of the automobile.

Since 1985, the replicas, all of them true to the original and fully operational,

have been displayed in numerous museums and exhibitions around the world.

On Sunday 11 October 1998, one of them was on display at the Mercedes-

Benz Show and Shine day at Manners Hill Park, Peppermint Grove.

Daimler-Benz apprentices spent approximately 10,000 working hours on the

construction of the replicas' components, using only materials available to

Karl Benz 100 years before.

The apprentices, many of them female, had been trained in 13 different

industrial and technical disciplines and in a variety of locations.

The most up to date machinery and processes were used to ensure that the

components were exact copies of the original.

The components were then assembled in the Daimler-Benz plants in Mannheim,

Sindelfingen and Untertuerkheim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original 1886 Benz, which is now housed in the Deutsche Museum in

Munich, Germany, was not the world's first motorised vehicle.

Leonardo da Vinci and later Francis Bacon visualised the concept in the 16th

and 17th centuries respectively, and French engineer Nicolas Josef Cugnot

was the first person to bring the concept to fruition.

In April 1770, Cugnot gave his first successful demonstration of his steam

driven wagon.

Other Fenchmen, such as Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir and Edouard Delamare-

Debouteville, designed and demonstrated various motorised vehicles, powered

by slow-running, heavy, gas-powered internal combustion engines, adapted

from stationary applications.

But none of these projects succeeded beyond the experimental stage to

become marketable concepts.

The achievement of Benz and his contemporary, Gottlieb Daimler, in 1886 was

to develop vehicles in which a light, high speed internal combustion engine

was built as an organic part of the total concept.

They were motor "cars", not motor "carts".

News of this German success opened the doors to the full potential of

motorised transport: the first taxi, the first coupe, the first bus, the first

goods-carrying truck, the first motor boat, the first powered balloon - were

all developed and put into operation by Benz and Daimler in the halcyon

decade that followed the patented recognition of the automobile.

Ironically, these two great automotive pioneers never met, even though their

endeavours were less than 100 km apart.

Daimler died in 1900, Benz in 1929.

Yet their names were united in 1926 by the union of the companies they

founded to form Daimler-Benz, which today produces Mercedes-Benz cars,

trucks, buses, coaches, all-wheel-drive vehicles and tractors.

Daimler-Benz itself recently merged with another well known automobile

manufacturer, Chrysler Corporation, but even since that merger, the name

Benz has lived on as part of the legendary Mercedes-Benz brand name.

[by Jeremy Ludlow]

 

 

 

 

 

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