Patent of First Gasoline Automobile

Date: January 29, 1886 • Location: Berlin, Germany

Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

Carl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical, modern automobile and the first car to be put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.