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.
General Knowledge
Inventions
Difficulty: Easy
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Answer
Correct Answer: Karl Benz
Explanation
Given data
- Asks for the inventor of the first practical gasoline automobile.
Concept / ApproachKarl 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.
ReasoningPatent + roadworthy vehicle demonstration → Karl Benz.
Common pitfalls
- Confusing commercialization/assembly-line innovation (Henry Ford) with the original invention.
Final AnswerKarl Benz.