This Womens Day, discover how Bertha Benz ensured we got to see the first ever motor car and how her historic 1888 road trip ...

where Carl founded Benz and Sons in 1906 with the two boys Bertha had taken with her that August day in 1888. By the time the firm merged with Daimler in 1926, Benz and Sons had produced more than ...

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 ...