When Bertha ... world's first long-distance drive and the first recorded drive by a woman driver. Germany has designated her 150-mile round-trip route between Manheim and Pforzheim as the Bertha ...

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Who invented the automobile? The answer depends a little bit on your definition of the word. The first practical gas-powered carriage was built by Karl Benz, who later merged his company with ...

On this day in 1886 Karl Benz patented the first internal ... a vehicle. Bertha Benz chose to publicise the new invention by proving its practicality in a long distance road trip.

In the early 20th century, Mercedes-Benz was not the unified ... she set out on what is considered the first long-distance ...

To prove to her husband, Karl Benz, that the future of transportation was in automobiles, Bertha Benz drove a little over 60 miles from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, in the Benz Patent ...

Daisy Ridley stars in Trailblazer, a new VR interactive story from Emmy-nominated director Eloise Singer about Bertha Benz, a pioneer of the automobile back in the late 1800's who is credited with ...