TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man™️ to receive most of all of the credit.
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
@jwcph she also bankrolled his broke ass!
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
Yep, her first trip passing 200m from where I'm typing this right now. Heidelberg.
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
@jwcph If I may recommend the (brief) musical by Helen Arney: https://youtu.be/bt6ldR3i7Zk
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
@jwcph There is a German comic narrating that story: https://www.abrafaxe.com/mosaik-591-bertha-machts/
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@jwcph There is a German comic narrating that story: https://www.abrafaxe.com/mosaik-591-bertha-machts/
@fiveop Bertha macht's indeed
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TIL of Bertha Benz who, If Carl Benz was the father of cars, was their mother & like so many mothers, she did crucial work only for her Man
️ to receive most of all of the credit. In 1888 she perpetrated the world's first grand theft auto when she stole her husband's prototype & took it on the world's first road trip, during which she both affected repairs & collected important technical development knowledge.
Without her there would have been no Benz motor vehicles.
@jwcph
Well, the sad thing about it was that it didn't improve the situation for women as much as it should have, but instead undermined the role of electric cars, whose development could actually have begun at the same time.Sometimes things don't turn out the way you'd like them to.
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@jwcph
Well, the sad thing about it was that it didn't improve the situation for women as much as it should have, but instead undermined the role of electric cars, whose development could actually have begun at the same time.Sometimes things don't turn out the way you'd like them to.
@jwcph
But the story itself is worth being told as much as it can, of course.
