Mercedes-Benz
The origin of the automobile, as we know it today, is produced in Germany where engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach manufactured an engine explosion four times, and simultaneously chemistry teacher Eilhard Mitscherlich discovered a hydrocarbon with a very stable and High-power energy carried by name benzina.
These two engineers built this engine, and two years later mounted on a two-wheeled vehicle. On the other hand another young German engineer, Karl Benz, was also working in the manufacture of gas engines. Benz had news of the four-stroke engines of Daimler and after a tough competition in the market eventually merged in leading to the company Daimler-Benz, the predecessor of the current Mercedes.
As a result of a certain failure of the Daimler home in a race in which the pilot died of one of its vehicles, Emille Jellinek, consul general in Paris and distributor of Daimler in France in addition to enthusiastic supporter of the German cars, proposed that of a new model according to their own criteria, and even promised to buy 36 of those if it is granted the rights to sell in Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and France. As the figure of 36 vehicles, which today may seem ridiculous, then was extremely important, the house Daimler acceded to the request of Jellinek.
Jellinek himself suggested that the model was called Mercedes in honor of her own daughter, whose españolidad explained by the fact that Spanish was his wife.
After the apparent whim of christening a model car with a woman’s name and at the time it was also frankly exotic, there is a reason major trading: Jellinek at its new relationship with Daimler suspected to be problems and Panhard Levassor, built in France Daimler models under license. So with this election sought a certain independence of Daimler and that the latter did not appear to avoid problems with the competition, something that did not occur immediately because Panhard Levassor raised in a lawsuit to Jellinek, which is ultimately resolved in favor of the latter .
However, this by itself does not explain the success of the Mercedes name, I really succeeded in absolute terms was the so-called car. The Mercedes was conducted along the basic ideas suggested by Jellinek, but directly responsible for its design was the extraordinary engineer William Maybach.
The Mercedes was a very big step forward in the evolution of the car stopped immediately obsolete all other vehicles of its era. Actually we can say that the Mercedes was the first modern car, a fact recognized by almost all historians of the car, including the French that this always have opinions.