January 16 2026,
From 1886 to 2026: Celebrating 140 Years of Mercedes-Benz Innovation
On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz filed Patent DRP 37435 for his "vehicle with gas-engine drive," a document now recognized as the birth certificate of the automobile and part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. That single act of ingenuity launched an era of personal mobility that changed civilization forever. Nearly simultaneously, Gottlieb Daimler installed his high-speed internal...
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