!!!Marcus, Siegfried

b. Malchin (Germany), Sept. 18, 1831, 
d. Vienna, June 30, 1898, mechanic and inventor. From 1852 in Vienna; 
1860 owned a mechanic's shop and built a combustion engine and 
automobiles at the same time as N. Otto in Germany. On June 21, 1864 
took out a privilege for an electromagnetic ignition system, on March 
30, 1865 for a carburettor. He mounted the first two-stroke petrol 
engine on a wooden hand waggon, which was propelled over a short 
distance in 1864. It is not clear whether his second automobile (owned 
by the Austrian Automobile Club,  OeAMTC) was first operational in 
1872/75 or not until in 1888. The wooden automobile has a horizontally 
mounted four-stroke single-cylinder engine with a spray-brush 
carburettor and magneto ignition and an output of up to 0.55 kW 
(0.75 HP). M. took out more than 38 patents in the fields of 
combustion engines, telegraphy, gas engineering and electrical 
engineering.

!Literature
A. Buberl, Automobile. Die bewegte Geschichte des 
Strassenfahrzeuges, 1991; A. Buberl, Die Automobile des S. M., 
1994.



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