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This Badass Woman Took the World’s First Road Trip—and Stole Her Husband's Car to Do ItBertha Benz may just be the coolest road tripper to ever drive this planet. As anyone who has ever been married will tell you ...
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The small town in Germany where both the car and the bycicle were inventedBaron Karl von Drais – then 32 – caused quite a stir. The people of Mannheim, then a modest city in southwest Germany, paused ...
On this day in 1886 Karl Benz patented the first internal combustion engine on a motor car. The engine had been in development throughout 1885, and the first ever motor car was available for sale ...
He didn’t think it was ready for the road, and he was mostly right. Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner, believed in her husband’s invention. She had been there since the beginning ...
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 ...
As anyone who has ever been married will tell you, sometimes, no matter how supportive your partner can be, you just need to say, "Fine, I'll do it myself." And it turns out Bertha Benz knew ...
A painting of the famous road trip with Bertha Benz and sons Richard and Eugen in 1888.
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