Editing Siegfried Marcus (section)

==Marcus' cars==
[[File:MW1 signiert klein.jpg|thumb|upright|Marcus cart of 1870]]
[[File:TMW Marcuswagen links 2018-07-21.jpg|thumb|The second Marcus car of 1888/89 in Vienna’s Technical Museum]]

Based on the information from existing sources, Marcus' first machine was built on a simple handcart in 1870.<ref>handritten notes of Marcus himself on the photo</ref> It had to be started by lifting the drive wheels off the ground and spinning them. The [[internal combustion engine]] was designed for liquid combustibles and made him the first to propel a vehicle, a handcart, by means of [[Gasoline|petrol]]. Marcus was not satisfied with this cart and dismantled it.<ref name=Brit/> However, his first vehicle model was displayed at the Vienna Exhibition in 1873.<ref>Austo-Hungary, The Jewish Voice (St. Louis, Missouri)11 Nov 1904, Fri, Page 8, retrieved from Newspapers.Com on 3 November 2021</ref>

In 1883, a patent for a low-voltage [[ignition magneto]] was given to Marcus in Germany, and a new petrol engine was built.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/156028394/?terms=%22siegfried%2Bmarcus%22%2Bvienna |title=Ignition |newspaper=The Record-Union
|location=Sacramento, California |date=13 December 1884 |page=7 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> This design was used for all further engines, including that of the only existing Marcus car of 1888/1889. It was this ignition, in conjunction with the "rotating brush [[carburetor]]", that made the engine's design very innovative. By 1886, the [[German Navy]] was using the engine in its torpedo boats.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22Siegfried+Marcus%22&dr_year=1860-1895 |title=Austro-Hungary |newspaper=[[The Times]]
|location=London |date=16 November 1886 |page=5 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1887, Marcus started a co-operation with the [[Moravia]]n company Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz. They offered two stroke and — after the fall of the [[Nicolaus Otto|Otto]]-Patent in 1886 — four stroke engines of the Marcus type.

In the 1904 book, ''The Motor'', it was stated that Siegfried Marcus is widely credited with having invented the benzine motor.<ref>"The Motor," Volume 6,  (IPC Specialist & Professional Press Limited, 1904) [https://books.google.com/books?id=WnrVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA375 p.375]</ref>

John Nixon of ''[[The London Times]]'' in 1938 considered Marcus' development of the motor car to have been experimental, as opposed to [[Carl Benz|Benz]] who took the concept from experimental to production. Nixon described Marcus' cars as "impractical".<ref name="Nixon1938">{{cite news |title=The First Motor Car |first=John C. |last=Nixon |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=29 March 1938 |issue=47955 |page=52}}</ref> In 1950, ''The Times'' described his second car erroneously as being built in 1875, and the first petrol-powered road vehicle. A description of its first journey of 7.5 miles from Vienna to [[Klosterneuburg|Klosterneuberg]] was included in the article.<ref>{{cite news |title=1875 Motor-Car Driven Again |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=17 April 1950 |issue=51667 |page=3}}</ref> In 1968 and 1971, it was disproved that Marcus had constructed his car in 1875; it was built in 1888/89.<ref name=PrMuse /><ref name=MBG /> Since the car was moved to the [[Vienna Technical Museum]] in 1918, it has only been driven twice, once when sent for display in Sweden.<ref>Chore to drive this, News-Pilot (San Pedro, California)12 Apr 1955, Tue, Page 7, retrieved through Newspapers.com 3 November 2021</ref>