Before the invention of the internal combustion engine many people had to do the hard work that we take for granted today. Before the invention of the engine, farmers had to carry their crops by hand or by animal to the market. The invention of the internal combustion engine helped to relieve them of the backbreaking work and also helped in many other fields of work.
The first renderings of the internal combustion engine date back to 1680 in Germany. A man by the name of Christian Huygens drew the first plan of an internal combustion that ran on gunpowder. Even though he came up with this clever design he did not ever build it. There were many attempts to build the internal combustion engine that we know of today but it wasn’t until 1864 that a man designed and built the internal combustion engine that we know today. In 1864 a man by the name of Siegfried Marcus designed and built the first internal combustion engine that we know of to this date. He built a one-cylinder engine with a crude form of a carburetor. He later attached his newly found invention to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. A few years later Marcus designed a vehicle the could for a brief time run at 10 miles per hour. Many historians believe this to be the forerunner to the modern design of the automobile by being the first gasoline-powered automobile. Although this was the first rendering and completion of an internal combustion engine many historians disregard Marcus as the father of the gasoline engine.
Many people view the father of the gasoline engine to be Karl Benz. The reasons many people did not view Marcus as the father or inventor of the gasoline-powered car or engine is because is engines were very expensive and they were not easy to mass-produce. Karl Benz received his first patent for a gasoline powered car on January 29,1886.
Karl Benz was born in 1844 in Bagen Muehlburg, Germany. Karl Benz’s father was the operator of a train car when Karl was little. It was not until 1871 that Benz and his partner August Ritter founded their first company call the Iron Foundry and Machine Shop. He was the main supplier of building materials to the town. It was not until 1879 that Benz received his first patient for his work inventing a two-stroke engine. It was not until 1883 that he founded the second company of his career that we now recognize his work for. He founded Benz and Company to produce industrial engines in Mannheim, Germany. A few years later Benz began his work on a four-stroke engine to power a motorcar. Later he went on to patent the engine with 958cc, .75hp on the body of a three-wheeled vehicle. The vehicle was first driven in Mannheim in 1885. One year later in 1886 he received the patent for his gasoline fueled automobile and then later began selling them to the public. In 1893 the car Karl Benz had designed and built went on the market and became the world’s first inexpensive mass produced car. 
The invention of the internal combustion engine has impacted the world in many ways. It has helped make a hard task easy that would result in manual labor if not for this invention. It has improved the efficiency of transportation and enabled people to travel long distances, carry heavy loads and get from place to place quickly. Without the invention of the internal combustion engine our life as we know it today would not be possible.
My journal article describes how the people of this world use different types of alcohol's for fuel. our society is now so dependent on oil the with out it we could not survive. There have been many advances in developing new fuel sources and the gasoline engine is fading out of the spot light.
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