"Without her husband’s knowledge, Bertha Benz therefore embarked on a publicity tour in the early hours of an August day in 1888." She was joined by their two teenage sons, Eugen and Richard, who all ...

by car! Without telling her husband and without a driving licence, Bertha Benz, 39, left Mainz at dawn on the 5th of August 1888, with her eldest sons Richard (14) and Eugen (15). They embarked in ...

Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner ... the thing and figure out its remaining weaknesses. So on August 5th, 1888, she and her two teen-aged sons, Eugen and Richard, took off at ...

On this day in 1886 Karl Benz patented the first internal combustion engine on a motor car. The engine had been in development throughout 1885, and the first ever motor car was available for sale ...

EVs are becoming all the rage world over. And this time invention, innovation and enterprise seem to be on the side of the EV ...

"Without her husband’s knowledge, Bertha Benz therefore embarked on a publicity tour in the early hours of an August day in 1888." She was joined by their two teenage sons, Eugen and Richard ...