According to the history, Bertha Benz is the first person to drive a car. Although, Carl Benz, the husband of Bertha Benz is the one that invented the car but his wife showed him how to drive it.
Bertha ringer was born in 1849 to a wealthy family in Germany. When she was 21 years old she used part of her dowry ( the money that a bride’s family would give her upon marriage) to invest in iron construction which is own by Karl Benz. She and her mother was talking about their marriage on the horse and after two years later she gets married to Carl Benz.
After their marriage she continued to used her dowry to invest in her husband projects, his CIE and Benz . This was established in 1883 to create an industrial engines and machines. Her money also helped the and proved vital in the realisation and the development of her husband’s horseless carriage in 1885. The first invented car consisted of a motor engine that was mounted and rested on three wheels.
The only problem that the car has is that nobody wanted to buy one. The motor wagon was seen as novelty, it has a contraption that can travel in a short distance and returns to its starting point with the assist of engineers. This was below his expectation because nobody wanted to buy it because it is slow, Carl’s began to fall into despair and depression after he spent a lot of money on the motor invention and it lacks of patronage.
When Bertha realized that the car was the problem that her husband had, she decided to drive the car in long distance on her way she noticed that the car stop and she find a place to find something like petroleum since there is no filling station then. She struggle and drive it to her mother’s place which took her 11hours to reached there and after she come back from journey she communicated all the problems she had experienced with her husband.
Bertha had shown the world and her husband that the automobile was capable of travelling a long distance and see it as the future of travel. Her husband was reinvigorated and ploughed everything into making a new model to perfect for an exhibition in Munich after some weeks.
Carl’s Benz word of appreciation, there is only one person that remained with me in the small ship of life when it seemed destined to be sink. And that is my lovely wife. She is brave and resolutely she set the new sail of hope.
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