Hanko
join:2001-12-28
Eatonville, WA | reply to cpsycho
Re: Nokia vs Apple, patents a tad broad? Unfortunately that would be Daimler, & Benz.
# 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
# 1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
Neither of these guys built the very first internal combustion engines but they were the first to patent them. |
