Karl Benz Research Paper

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The invention of the car was the innovation of the horse drawn buggies that people in the 1800's used. The first car was a three-wheeled motorized vehicle patented by Karl Benz. It was called the Motorwagen, which had its own throttle system, spark plugs, gear shifters, a water radiator, a carburetor and other fundamentals to the automobile. Karl Benz based his invention of the car from other transport inventions.
Although Karl invented the first car, there were so many other inventions that influenced the car to be made. Leonardo da Vinci designed a cart without horse in the early 1500's, or like how Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot invented a steam powered vehicle in 1769.
Benz was born in 1844 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He and his family were poor as

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