On January 29, 1886, the 42-year-old German engineer Carl Benz was awarded a very special industrial patent, automobile fueled by gas .
This so-called car is completely different from the car we see now, it is actually a "three-bike" converted from a bicycle, and then added a single-cylinder internal combustion engine. The car weighs only 265 kilograms, and it is said that the horsepower is less than 1 horse, even if it is on a small slope, it needs to be pushed by someone behind.
This three-wheeled car was actually born the year before (1885), when it caused a sensation in the small German city of Mannheim, because almost all the people in the city knew that there was a "fool" in the city who built a ridiculous "three-wheeled bicycle". It is very slow, the driving maneuverability is very poor, and it often involuntarily drives into the ditch.
These problems were tolerable to Carl Benz, and the hardest thing for him was getting gasoline. At that time, there was no gas station, he had to run to the pharmacy shop to buy a little gasoline, and when he filled up the car, he needed to run a lot of pharmacy shops, little by little. You read that right, to buy gasoline is to go to the pharmacy shop, when gasoline products were used as a kind of household cleaner, and there was no concept of gasoline as fuel.
It can be said that since Carl Benz invented this fuel car, all kinds of ups and downs have not been broken. Because it was treated as a joke, no one came to consult and buy his invention. Once I went out on the street to drive a publicity, and the internal combustion engine burned up, and the three-wheeled car burned to the front of the wheel. Well, people not only find this thing ridiculous, but also know that this thing is very dangerous.
By August 1888, after numerous improvements to the car, Carl Benz decided to take his two sons on a long journey in his car for a distance of 104 kilometers. He wanted to prove to people that the time had come for cars to replace carriages.
The journey was very smooth, the car only had a few glitches on the road, and finally the father and son three successfully arrived at their destination. Then they caught fire, newspapers began to report on this amazing thing, and then many buyers came to the door for consultation.
Later, Carl Benz continued to improve and evolve over the years, giving birth to new models, and he made the term "car" step by step into people's lives.