Bertha Benz may just be ... citing Karl Benz's memoir, where he wrote, “Only one person remained with me in the small ship of life when it seemed destined to sink. That was my wife.

Bertha Benz changed automotive history by packing her two teenage sons into a car and driving to her mother’s house. It doesn’t exactly sound impressive, but the year was 1888. A 65-mile road ...

Taking a husband's car without asking can result in a flaming row but when Karl Benz's wife did it 125 years ago, she ignited the start of the motoring age, writes Joe Murphy Lady driver ...

Bertha Benz, born Ringer in 1849, was from the upper class of the age. She was inclined towards the technical aspects of life, but because women of the time were denied access to higher education ...

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 ...

On Aug. 5, 1888, Bertha Benz ... a viable form of personal transportation. As Denise McCluggage put it on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Benz’s trip: “The people of Mannheim had ...

It’s commonly known and accepted that the world’s first motor car was the Benz Patent-Motorwagen ... are a part of life today, they didn’t exist in 1888 when Bertha embarked on her historic ...