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The 2011 documentary The Car is Born, produced by Ulli Kampelmann, centered on the first road trip by Bertha Benz. In 2016, she was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame, 42 years after her husband was inducted.
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.
Dec 27, 2019 · Beyond the trains in the north of Spain, something similar happened to Bertha Benz with her first car trip through Germany in 1888. Throughout the 106 kilometers traveled, many peasants presigned themselves to the passing of this demonic ingenuity.
Apr 16, 2019 · Determined to prove her theory, one August morning in 1888 she quietly roused her two teenage sons for a journey of a lifetime. They were to take the automobile on its very first long-distance journey – from their home in Mannheim to her mother’s house in Pforzheim, 56 miles away.
May 24, 2021 · Even after Benz did create the first automobile, a long journey was still a long way off. That was until his wife, Bertha Benz, decided to take their car and visit another part of Germany. Let's take a look back at the story of Bertha Benz and the first-ever long-distance road trip.
Aug 12, 2010 · 1888: Berta Benz, wife of inventor Karl Benz, takes her husband’s car on the first documented road trip in an automobile. The trip would also include the first road repairs, the first automotive...
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Until now, Mrs. Benz has been most famous for her legendary role as the first person to take long-distance automotive road trip, traveling from Mannheim to Pforzheim in August 1888 with her two sons Richard and Eugen, unbeknownst to her husband.
