Automotive history: Who is credited with inventing the first practical automobile powered by a gasoline internal combustion engine? Context: Late 19th-century Germany; patented motorwagen placed on three wheels with a single-cylinder engine. Choose the correct inventor.

Given data

• Asks for the inventor of the first practical gasoline automobile.

Concept / Approach
Karl Benz built and patented the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (1885–86), widely recognized as the first practical gasoline car. Daimler/Maybach made crucial contemporaneous advances, but the standard quiz attribution is Benz.

Reasoning
Patent + roadworthy vehicle demonstration → Karl Benz.

Common pitfalls

• Confusing commercialization/assembly-line innovation (Henry Ford) with the original invention.

Final Answer
Karl Benz.