Industrial Age · Europe · Technology
1885
Benz's Motorwagen
1885
In Mannheim, Karl Benz built a three-wheeled vehicle powered by a small internal-combustion engine of his own design - the first true automobile. His wife Bertha would drive it ninety kilometers to visit her mother two years later, stopping at pharmacies for petrol. Horsepower was on its way to being metaphor.
In context
Also in 1885 (6 other events on record)
- Berlin Conference Partitions Africa · Africa · Politics
- Indian National Congress Founded · South Asia · Politics
- Fall of Khartoum · Africa · War
- Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine · Europe · Science
- Riel Rebellion Crushed · North America · War
- Canadian Pacific Completed · North America · Technology
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Technology
- Before: 1883: Orient Express Runs
- After: 1888: Kodak Launches
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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