Congratulations! 128 years ago on January 29 was the first car invented.

Mechanic and engineer Karl Benz was granted a patent for his first car. It was a three-wheeled double crew weight of 250 kg on high wheels with spokes . Benz put on him his new four-stroke gasoline engine , water-cooled power 0.9 hp The cylinder was placed horizontally above the axis of the rear wheels and huge driving them through one belt and two chain drives . Machine developed by our standards ludicrous speed – 16 km / h , but in those days it was a very progressive design . The crew was officially named Motorwagen.

Photos of the first car

1870, Vienna, Austria: The world’s first gasoline powered vehicles. “The first machine of Marcus.” Around 1870 in Vienna (Austria, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire), inventor Siegfried Marcus put a liquid internal combustion engine on a simple cart that made him the first person to use the vehicle on petrol.

«Benz Patent-Motorwagen № 3»

One of the first four-wheeled vehicles in the UK, runs on gasoline was built in Birmingham in 1895 by Frederick William Lanchester, they also had a patented disc brake.