Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Siegfried Samuel Marcus (18 September 1831 1 July 1898) was a German-born Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer. Marcus was born in Malchin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1852. From 1856 to 1898 he worked as a self-employed manufacturer of scientific instruments in this city. He developed an interest in electricity and as a lighting technician too. His chief improvements include telegraph systems and ignition devices. Ca. 1870 he put an internal combustion engine on a simple handcart. This appliance was designed for liquid combustibles and made him the first man propelling a vehicle by means of gasoline. Today, this car is well known as The first Marcus Car .