The first practical gas-powered carriage was built by Karl Benz, who later ... They went about 104km (65 mi) in total, arriving at Pforzheim around sunset. Bertha sent Karl a telegram to tell ...

A 65-mile road trip by car had never been attempted before—certainly not by a lone woman toting her children. Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Bertha was married to Karl Benz. Their last name ...

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In August 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, became the world's first person to take a long-distance automotive road trip, as she drove her husband's invention for about 104 km (65 miles ...

In what is today recognised as the first road trip ever undertaken, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Richard and Eugen, left Mannheim at dawn on 5 August 1888, their destination the town of Pforzheim ...

In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of automotive inventor Karl Benz, set off on a groundbreaking trip. A pioneer and investor in her own right, Bertha took the world's first combustion engine-powered car ...

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Ridley will play Bertha Benz, the wife of Motorwagen inventor Karl Benz, who embarked on the world's first road trip in 1888. By Lily Ford Daisy Ridley will star in a new virtual reality ...

A painting of the famous road trip with Bertha Benz and sons Richard and Eugen in 1888.