Leah- Alizah Pikbeski next to her fancy car. During those days, all the official bodies charged with shaping memory recognized him as the first man to start up a gas-powered vehicle. The Jewish genius went calmly to his grave. Siegfried Marcus died in 1898 and was buried with honors in Vienna’s Central Cemetery. And as Newton put it, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The question here is who stood on whose shoulders? The emergence of technological inventions relies on immeasurable layers of previous knowledge. There is no evidence that Karl Benz – a gifted and creative engineer in his own right – intentionally stole the patent. That would eventually become the first Mercedes-Benz. The man who did that was Karl Benz, who upgraded Marcus’s motored carriage to a real motorcar with a cooling system, brakes, a stable frame, and everything necessary to drive longer distances. The automobile was displayed in the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna’s museum of technology) and ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) officially recognized him as the vehicle’s inventor.Ĭhalk it up to poor marketing or the typical distractibility of geniuses: Marcus failed to register the invention of the motorcar as a patent. That collaboration gave rise to what would be called the “Marcuswagen.” People were finally knocking on the scatterbrained genius’s door. In 1887, Marcus began to collaborate with the Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz motor company. The uniformed woman introduced us to, “The first gas engine in history produced in 1885 by Karl Benz.” Pushed to the back of the gathering crowd, we finally discovered the source of the noise: A tireless belt doggedly turning a tremendous flywheel. The noise that grew louder as we approached resembled the grunting of a horse scaling a mountain and occasionally kicking tin. A towering woman with a classically Aryan appearance stands on a platform in the gallery’s center, sheathed in an aluminum lamé uniform and sporting a polite smile that threatens to explode. Suddenly, we hear a loud noise that draws visitors to a large gallery. A thickly carpeted iron bridge carries visitors through models of the first Mercedes motorcars, Daimler’s vintage-1895 bicycle, the first Benz truck produced in 1912 and the 1954 iconic 300sl to the modern-day E Class and Smart Cars. The museum’s four floors are housed in a massive, polished, and gleaming glass building. I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum last month on a family trip to Stuttgart. (Beit Hatfutsot, the Oster Visual Documentation Center, courtesy of Dana Bush-Kaury, Israel) The Marranos of Mashhad: The Story of a Jewish Community That Led a Double Life for 120 YearsĪ group of Jewish friends in their car, on an outing.House of Camondo: The Story of a Jewish Aristocratic Family Who Died in Auschwitz.The State of Israel by numbers: 73 facts that tell our story.
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