American reacts to Bertha Benz The Journey That Changed Everything 

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My Problem is: Most of the Americans believe, that Cars were invented in the US.

She was the wife of Carl Benz, the inventor of the First automobile. She drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim, without the knowledge of her husband, to prove to the world, the invention works, even on a Long distance. Both cities are located in the south west of Germany.

This was not only A car. It was THE car at this time, meaning the first one.

When a commercial becomes a history lesson. I love it! 😅👍

In 1871 Bertha Ringer used part of her dowry to fund the failing construction company of her fiancee Carl Benz. After they married in 1872 he moved to a new manufacturing venture named Benz & Cie to produce motor-driven carriages, for which he used her money as financial support. In 1886 Carl Benz patented his first gasoline-powered motor car, a tricycle which is considered to be the first practical modern automobile and the first car put into production. In 1888 he presented his Model No. 3, but it did not find many buyers. So Bertha Benz decided to take a Model No. 3 (without telling her husband and without any driver's license or other permission of the authorities) and to drive from Mannheim with her sons to her parents in Pforzheim, a distance of about 106 km. This was the first trip with an automobile over a significant distance. In Wiesloch near Heidelberg she had to buy Ligroin = washing benzine. For the return trip she took another route in order to get even more publicity. Afterwards she initiated some improvements for the Model No. 3 series like better brake pads and an additional gear for steep slopes.

She was German, and this was the very first drive….a milestone for the future world….and the story is true. Her husband didnt want to present the car to the world. This was the reason for the “stolen car”, because she convinced of that.

It started right there! You wanna take your car, to do some important stuff and your wife had taken it, to do some shopping. Some things never change...

It's important to note, that this is a REIMAGINING of the historic event. People knew about steam engines at the time, trains had been around for nearly a hundred years already. So *NO* they would not have believed her to be a witch. It would have been a curiosity for sure, but nothing like what is shown in the video.

I´m impressed how they spoke very good english in Germany back in 1888 !!!

that little girl is like take me with you please get me out of here !

I think you could say that the history of the automobile actually began...

Recommendation: another video about Mercedes Benz, claiming to be a commercial for automatic hazard detection, but actually being made by students of film. A Mercedes is driving through a rural area, obviously not modern. Almost nothing, aside from a certain name (you will certainly recognize it 😀) is actually spoken, and only short line of text is shown at the end, which says: "Recognise dangers before they arise". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ak8hXrmvGFU.html PS: okay… the title actually says it all

please get a very rough overview of the timeline of history. when mentioning a war and the first car, it certainly was not WW2 and 1944, or "almost 100 years ago". in that war, cars and tanks were widely used. that video also mentioned the year 1888 which certainly was long before WW2 and even WW1. for the history of the car, the name "Benz" should be better known. never heard of Daimler-Benz or Mercedes-Benz ? But many other americans confuse the invention of the car with Ford's later invention of doing mass production of cars. It's true that there were similar cars or engines before this, but the Otto-engine at that time was only stationary, and all other cars before Benz's were based on more unreliable steam engines. Thus this was the first and first commercial "petrol" (Ligroin, naphta) car. Karl Benz invented the engine in 1873 (and yes, there was a war around that time long before WW1: germany vs france 1871). His car was invented and patented in 1885/1886 and publicly shown driving at 10 mph in the same year, and this first "long distance" drive was done for publicity by his wife (who also had financed the invention with her dowry) two years later. Between 1886 and 1893, an entire "series" of 25 of these cars was built and commercially used/sold. Other companies and people involved in inventing cars and producing them around and after 1900 were Daimler and their engineer Maybach, and Emil Jellinek (his daughter was Mercedes), and all these names now are (or should be) known as car brands ... (the Ford company was founded a year later, but it took 20 years after this drive, until 1908, to produce the model T on an assembly line) ps (unimportant fun fact) : my grandfather came to Berlin around 1920 where he opened a store for car tires and accessories :-) and operated it for 20+ years until it was destroyed during WW2 :-(

"a witch is coming!" ... the fear might have been real back then! I mean: we would react the same way now, when an UFO would show up in the sky: "aliens are coming!" ... but: it's not an alien from outta space, but some german inventor ... again! :) ^^+gg

I like your reactions but always these copyright overlays. I saw several reactions to this or such other clips, none of them do that and none of them were blocked. It's no fun that way.