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Aug 5, 2024 · He was having trouble selling his motorcar, though, and Bertha took it upon herself to publicize his invention by literally taking it to the streets and demonstrating its practicality with the first recorded automotive road trip.
Benz reached Pforzheim somewhat after dusk, notifying her husband of her successful journey by telegram. She drove back to Mannheim several days later. [6] The trip was officially forbidden and Benz risked a penalty. There were no suitable roads and signs, only a few signposts.
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.
Bertha Benz takes world's first long-distance trip in an automobile. The Benz Patent Motor Car covers the 180-kilometer trip ; from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back without any problems; The pioneering activity paves the way for the automobile; In August 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her two sons in the Patent Motor Car ...
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 some 106km away. She did so without telling anyone, including her husband.
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.
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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.
