Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849-1944) · Athletes · Died at 95
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Something wrong?She took her husband's untested motor car on the first-ever long-distance automobile drive - 105 km in 1888 - inventing brake lining along the way and turning a garage curiosity into a global product.
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Bertha Benz with her husband Carl Benz in a Benz-Viktoria, model 1894
Carl and Bertha Benz, their daughter Klara and Fritz Held on a Benz Victoria during a trip near Schriesheim in 1894
Carl Benz, his family and Theodor Baron von Liebieg in 1894, on a trip from Mannheim to Gernsheim, driving a Benz Vis-à-Vis and a Benz Victoria
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Bertha Benz at the age of 18
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Bertha Ringer was born 3 May 1849 in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where women were barred from formal study. She became both investor and business partner to Carl Benz, funding and shaping his early automobile work. On 5 August 1888, without telling him, she drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen 105 km to field-test the machine, improvising solutions to mechanical problems as they arose and inventing brake lining in the process. The drive brought the Patent-Motorwagen its first public attention and its first sales. Her financial backing and practical engineering contributions went largely unrecognized until the 21st century. She died 5 May 1944.
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