In 1888 Mannheim, Germany, when 39-year-old Bertha Benz grew tired of her husband’s timidity and procrastination and even more tired of footing the bill for his innovative yet time-consuming invention of the automobile, she took his “Patent Motor Wagon” without his knowledge and set out at dawn to visit her mother just over 60 miles away.
In that early primitive vehicle—which to modern eyes resembles little more than a giant motorized tricycle—she and her two sons…
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