180 years ago, on September 18, 1831, was born Siegfried Marcus, who built the first self-propelled crew in 1875. Marcus ' second car, 1888-1889 Siegfried Samuil Markus was born in Malkhin, a town in the northeast of Germany. The interest in the technology led him to Berlin, where he was apprenticed at a well-known electrical engineering firm Siemens & Halske. When the Franco-Prussian war began, Marcus-a convinced pacifist-had to flee to Vienna. The inventor of Siegfried Marcus (18. 9. 1831-1. 7. (...) (...) was able to do a lot of inventions, but the poor health had covets it in 1857, Marcus opens a design bureau in Mariahilfer Strasse. At the 1867 Paris Exposition, he gets a silver medal for the carburetor. In addition, Marcus is inventing and magneto, truth, not to start a car, but for mining (to detonate explosives). The device was called Wiener Zünder-in slightly improved form it is familiar to many of the films about the partisans. Markus works in different fields-in his life (1831-1898) He managed to get 131 patents in 16 countries. Markus built the first self-propelled cart in 1870, long before the crews of Benz and Daimler. The written evidence and even the photographic card were retained for the testing of the machine. The first Siegfried Marcus model of 1870 was too primitive and could not be exploited normally Markus returned to the project of the motorized crew, with a carburettor and an electric ignition system. It is known that in 1882, Marcus built a two-stroke engine without first compression. The other crew, he orders a Fa workshop. Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz from the city of Adamstal-is now a Czech city of Adam (Moravia, near Brno). The car was ready in 1888. The car had the most important features of a modern car-a four-stroke engine of internal combustion, a carburetor, ignition of a fuel-air mixture from low voltage with a circuit breaker. Clutch, two-stage transmission, steering gear, separate driver and passenger seats. The invention of Marcus-Wiener Zünder has long been argued that the crew was designed by Marcus back in 1875, that is, ten years before the three-wheeled carcrew of Carl Benz. Although this fact was not confirmed, in 1938, when Germany joined Austria, the Austrians decided to hide the car that threatened the German priority-they feared that the Germans would be destroyed. Besides, Marcus was Jewish. In short, the car was rolled into a niche in the wall of the Vienna Technical Museum and was placed bricks and was allowed only after the collapse of Hitler. In 1951, he flew along the streets of Vienna, heading the parade.