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Benz first publicly drove the car on 3 July 1886 in Mannheim at a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph). A replica of the car at the museum in Mannheim. Image via Wiki Commons.

I n August 1888, Bertha Benz mounted a three-wheeler with her two sons, aged 13 and 15, and set out on a 100-km journey from Mannheim to her parents’ home in Pforzheim.

Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz. According to that very same car company , Bertha, born in 1849, married Carl when she was 23.

Bertha Benz's name likely sounds a little familiar. And really, it should. Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz.