Looking at the History of the Automobile

                                                                             Carl Benz

1. The automobile has been around for 120 years.
2. A patent is a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.  3. When Carl Benz obtains a patent in January of 1886 for his invention he described the automobile as a "vehicle with gas engine".
4. In August of 1888 Carl's wife, Birtha and his two eldest sons test drive his automobile, without him knowing.  The first petrol station is born from this.
5. The "axial pivot steering system" helps with the problem of not being able to steer the front two wheels simultaneously. 
6. When the two automobile companies are merged it is called "Mercedes Benz"
7. As a pioneer in technology what Benz experienced that many other pioneers will never experience is that he lived to see his dream come true, which was the breakthrough of the automobile.