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Columbia Encyclopedia
Benz, Karl, 1844-1929, German engineer, credited with building the first automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. The car, driven in Mannheim in 1885 and patented in 1886, had three wheels, an electric ignition, and differential gears and was water-cooled. As a result of a merger in 1926, Benz's company became Daimler-Benz AG, the manufacturer of the Mercedes-Benz automobile.
See St. J. C. Nixon, The Invention of the Automobile (Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler) (1936); E. Diesel, From Engine to Autos (tr. 1960).
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Benz may refer to:
Automobile history
- Karl Benz, German automobile engineer and inventor of Benz, later known as Mercedes-Benz (also Carl due to temporarily fashionable French spelling)
- Bertha Benz (née, Ringer), Karl Benz's wife, the first person to drive an automobile a long distance (over 106 km or 66 miles)
- Benz & Cie. the most important of several companies founded by Karl Benz in 1885, sometimes along with partners and his sons, the last of which that merged in 1926 to become Daimler-Benz
- Daimler-Benz, automobile manufacturer founded by merger in 1926 (becoming DaimlerChrysler in 1998-2007 by another merger), and now known as Daimler AG (2007-Present)
- Mercedes-Benz, the brand of automobiles and trucks produced by Daimler-Benz after 1926 and retained as a brand after the merger creating DaimlerChrysler, and now known as Daimler AG
Other references
- Benz, Nordwestmecklenburg, a municipality in the district Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Benz, Ostvorpommern, a municipality in the district Ostvorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- Derek Benz, an American author
- Maria Benz, a model and performer
- Nikki Benz, a Canadian pornographic actress and Film Director
- Spragga Benz, a reggae artist
- Benz (group), a London-based pop-RnB group of the mid-1990s, best known for Top 40 singles "Urban City Girl" and "Miss Parker"
- Benz (rapper), a hip hop artist from the Netherlands working for Raw Matz Music using a single name
- Benz (unit), a measurement, a unit of velocity equivalent to a metre per second
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