Wired News: March 4, 1887: Start Your Engine: "By Tony Long| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Mar, 04, 2007
1887: Gottlieb Daimler's 'Benzin motor carriage' is given its first test run in Esslingen, Germany. It's the first four-wheeled vehicle to feature Daimler's gasoline-powered, water-cooled internal combustion engine, the prototype of the engine that continues to be the most widely used to this day.
Daimler's motor carriage was aptly named -- it bears a close resemblance to the traditional horse-drawn carriage.
'Benzin,' incidentally, has nothing to do with Carl Benz, the other German automotive pioneer closely associated with Daimler. In this case, benzin is the German word for gasoline. In fact, at the time when the Benzin motor carriage made its debut, Daimler and Benz were fierce competitors.
Their companies continued growing separately until 1926, when they merged. Daimler and Benz never met.
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