Karl Benz & Bertha

<p>In the summer of 1888 Bertha Benz set out before dawn with her two teenage sons on a 106-kilometre journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Her vehicle-a three-wheeled experimental Motorwagen built by her husband Karl Benz-had never been tested over long distances. With no fuel stations no road signs and no public support her unannounced journey became the world's first long-distance automobile drive transforming skepticism into recognition and launching the modern age of personal mobility.</p><p></p><p>This deeply researched fact-driven narrative chronicles the intertwined lives of Karl and Bertha Benz-engineer and entrepreneur inventor and advocate-against the backdrop of Germany's industrial transformation. From Karl's early experiments with gas-powered engines and the founding of Benz & Cie. to Bertha's pivotal role in financing promoting and literally test-driving the concept of the automobile the book unpacks the engineering breakthroughs business struggles and cultural shifts that defined a new era of motion.</p><p></p><p>Through detailed accounts of technical milestones patent filings early races public exhibitions and royal endorsements this book repositions the Benz story not just as an engineering feat but as a human story of risk resilience and revolution. With an unwavering commitment to documented fact this is the definitive account of how a single road trip changed the world.</p>