Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #82: Karl Benz (1844-1929) Karl Benz (1844-1929) was a German engineer and inventor who designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. He also invented among other things, the accelerator, ignition using sparks from a battery, the spark plug, the clutch, the gear shift, the radiator and the carburetor. In other words, he is arguably the father of the automobile. The automobile has benefited and enhanced hundreds of millions of lives around the world. It allows people and their goods to conveniently and quickly span significant distances in comfort, privacy and relative safety. Go to #83: Jack Kilby Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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