10 World-Changing Inventions That Were Total Rip-Offs

6. Henry Ford Actually Made The Second Automobile

The man so arrogant he slapped his name on the front of every car he made even after he died, Henry Ford is actually not the man who invented the automobile. He's widely regarded as such, his T Model Ford being the first car on the market that people actually bought and drove and all, but it's still wrong. In case you hadn't got it by now, inventors are a bunch of back-stabbing monsters. You may very well have heard of the man who really invented the modern car, though. His name was Karl Benz, and his name is continued to this day by Mercedes-Benz. Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus were amongst the other German engineers trying to figure out how to make the automobile work back in the day. But Benz got their first. Powered by his own four-stroke cycle gasoline engine, Karl Benz's first car was built in 1885 and patented the following year. He began selling his cars in 1888. Henry Ford, meanwhile, didn't manage to crack his car design until a good decade after Benz already had. Catch up, slow poke!