A tribute to Bertha Benz, 2016 Inductee into the Automotive Hall of Fame. Originally shown at the 2016 Induction and Awards Night. July 21, 2016 Cobo Center, Detroit
Karl Benz was the engineer, innovator and inventor. PLUS + Bertha Benz was the implementer, promoter and marketer. = Success!!! What a team!!! Gut gemacht!!! (Well done). 👍👌👏🇩🇪
Cecilie BERTHA Ringer BENZ was a bold German visionary long before the spoke of female empowerment. She changed the world as we know it. Even as a minor, she asked her father to emancipate her so that she could take her dowry in advance and invest in the small business that her fiancé Carl Michel Vaillant Benz was starting there in Pforzheim. They later moved to Manheim, where they founded a metallurgist interprise, in which Carl created his prototype used for the patent application, granted in January 1886. For THREE years, through magazine advertisements, newspapers and exhibition fairs, he tried unsuccessfully to sell his product but nobody wanted it, it was thought that it was much more practical (and cheap) to use a horse than that "contraption". This led to the bankruptcy of the Benz family metallurgist, with the attachment of all machines and equipment for auction. Only the small vehicle was left, even the bank didn't want it. But Bertha believed in the invention of the desperate and desperate husband and secretly planned to help him. In the early hours of August 5, 1888, with the help of his teenage sons, Eugen and Richard, she moved away from home and started the engine of Patent Wagen No. 3 (the first two were very fragile and unstable - no one had actually run satisfactorily with them) and undertook one of the most important journeys in the history of mankind. At that oment she just wanted to save her family. After sixty-six miles to her hometown of Pforzheim, she not only publicized her husband's upbringing, getting the first clients, but revolutionized the world: She was the very FIRST PERSON to truly drive a car - and not by meters but by HUNDREDS of KILOMETERS; She started the world auto industry (August 5, 1888 is the official birth for this feat); Created Product Engineering, there is no car factory without it. His critical observations and emergency modifications throughout the journey, later passed on to Carl, made for a better product. And saved the man she loved. Julio Cesar Gaudioso
Bertha had money. She was not an inventor or innovator. Women are empowered by men. Men create the inventions and opportunities - women move into them. We see it everywhere and in every industry,
So it was her money, effort, promotion, all while she had and raised kids. he invented it taking her opinion on details and finished product. I wonder how many inventors out there were selfish and never credited their wives with hard work. Good on Karl for being a real man and giving credit where the credit is due.
The most famouus man who never credited his woman fotr his woirk, was Einstein, who plagiarized his way to great fame and fortune, while betraying, humiliating and abusing is wife. To top it all of, he abandoned his first wife and retardet daughter. THAT sort of deuchebag is held up these days as a paragon of virtue.
In contrast to the common myth about her epic ride it was not "Motorwagen Nr. 1" that she took for it. Nr.1 was a prototype that Benz was not too convinced of. He took it apart very soon but kept some relics. Those have been on display on the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich for over 100 years now, being completed to a half-restored, half-replica "Motorwagen Nr.1". It was his third car, "Motorwagen Nr. 3" that he finally wanted to built in numbers. But nobody wanted it. Then, this special night, Bertha woke up her two sons and gave the flywheel a swirl. Nr.3 was a threewheeler like the two prototypes before, but it was back to cheaper and more solid wooden wheels (artillery wheels). Maybe that the two large rear wheels of Nr. 1 ( probably intended for penny-farthing bicycles) had been too flimsy for the bad dirttrack roads of their age.
What's left is for them to say that the idea for the car was hers, but Carl stole it from her😄. What he did was bold, and logistically a disaster, but it worked.
Dieses Gesichte habe ich erste mal als ich im Pforzheim zum Goldschmied Schule besucht haben gehört , schöne Stadt Pforzheim nur Goldschmied Stadt vor ziehen der Temperament der Pforzheimer Damen unbekannt bleiben
Karl Benz was the engineer, innovator and inventor.
PLUS +
Bertha Benz was the implementer, promoter and marketer.
= Success!!!
What a team!!! Gut gemacht!!! (Well done). 👍👌👏🇩🇪
Like Wozniak and Jobs.
So how they came out the name Mercedes? I love my old Benz 💞
The man creates the business the woman promotes it. I love that
She was a business woman herself actually.
She invented the breaks also.
You are right.
@@mimimimiii3237 , no, ignoramus, she did not invent breaks.
A cobbler put on some leather replacement breaks for her. She didn't even design them.
I Salute to Birtha Benz ❤from pakistan 🇵🇰
There's a proverb saying 'Behind every successful men there's women '.
Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law....
beautiful, rich, smart, generous, innovative etc.. Bertha was a great catch!
🙏 Thank You So Much Bertha Benz ( 1849~1944 ) for your sacrifices & endeavour for making Mercedes Benz possible today! 🕯🌷🌿🌍💖🇩🇪
Bertha was so beatiful outside&inside
Bertha Benz was a great woman of the century 19.
Bertha was brilliant and the first of many things including the 1st ever car thief!!!!!!
Cecilie BERTHA Ringer BENZ was a bold German visionary long before the spoke of
female empowerment. She changed the world as we know it.
Even as a minor, she asked her father to emancipate her so that she could take her dowry in advance and invest in the small business that her fiancé Carl Michel Vaillant Benz was starting there in Pforzheim. They later moved to Manheim, where they founded a metallurgist interprise, in which Carl created his prototype used for the patent application, granted in January 1886. For THREE years, through magazine
advertisements, newspapers and exhibition fairs, he tried unsuccessfully to sell his product but nobody wanted it, it was thought that it was much more practical (and cheap) to use a horse than that "contraption". This led to the bankruptcy of the
Benz family metallurgist, with the attachment of all machines and equipment for auction.
Only the small vehicle was left, even the bank didn't want it.
But Bertha believed in the invention of the desperate and desperate husband and secretly planned to help him.
In the early hours of August 5, 1888, with the help of his teenage sons, Eugen and
Richard, she moved away from home and started the engine of Patent Wagen No. 3 (the first two were very fragile and unstable - no one had actually run satisfactorily with them) and undertook one of the most important journeys in the history of mankind. At that oment she just wanted to save her family. After sixty-six miles to her hometown
of Pforzheim, she not only publicized her husband's upbringing, getting the first clients, but revolutionized the world:
She was the very FIRST PERSON to truly drive a car - and not by meters but by HUNDREDS of KILOMETERS;
She started the world auto industry (August 5, 1888 is the official birth for this feat);
Created Product Engineering, there is no car factory without it. His critical observations and emergency modifications throughout the journey, later passed on to Carl, made for a better product.
And saved the man
she loved.
Julio Cesar Gaudioso
I love Mercedes 💚
Congratulations Bertha Benz and Karl Benz for believe on dreams
A wonderful story and history - a true inspiration to all women - WOMAN POWER !! :)
Yes, and she unleashed that power by complementing her man perfectly!
Bertha had money. She was not an inventor or innovator. Women are empowered by men. Men create the inventions and opportunities - women move into them. We see it everywhere and in every industry,
What a beautiful historical story, love it. The first one in the world to drive a car ,just imagine.
This , people, should be a nice love story.. inspiring love story of a great couple..
Grettings from Colombia
Bertha Benz was gorgeous.
So it was her money, effort, promotion, all while she had and raised kids. he invented it taking her opinion on details and finished product. I wonder how many inventors out there were selfish and never credited their wives with hard work. Good on Karl for being a real man and giving credit where the credit is due.
She told the problem, he found the solution.
The most famouus man who never credited his woman fotr his woirk, was Einstein, who plagiarized his way to great fame and fortune, while betraying, humiliating and abusing is wife. To top it all of, he abandoned his first wife and retardet daughter. THAT sort of deuchebag is held up these days as a paragon of virtue.
Das Beste oder nichts!
I just love gutsy adventuresome women!
Tough WOMAN...
When the going gets tough...the tough get going..❤❤❤❤❤❤
Bertha Benz uma mulher a frente do seu tempo
Merci
In contrast to the common myth about her epic ride it was not "Motorwagen Nr. 1" that she took for it. Nr.1 was a prototype that Benz was not too convinced of. He took it apart very soon but kept some relics. Those have been on display on the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich for over 100 years now, being completed to a half-restored, half-replica "Motorwagen Nr.1". It was his third car, "Motorwagen Nr. 3" that he finally wanted to built in numbers. But nobody wanted it. Then, this special night, Bertha woke up her two sons and gave the flywheel a swirl. Nr.3 was a threewheeler like the two prototypes before, but it was back to cheaper and more solid wooden wheels (artillery wheels). Maybe that the two large rear wheels of Nr. 1 ( probably intended for penny-farthing bicycles) had been too flimsy for the bad dirttrack roads of their age.
Great WOMAN Power ...Kudos to Bertha Benz!
Kudos to Bertha
WOW!!!!
Cäcilie Bertha Ringer Benz meine Mutter hat auch so eine personalitöt Vogel, Maria. Ich sehen sie nur mehr im Himmel.
Carl knew that the prototype was not ready for a demonstration, it was very risky what she did, but luckily it worked
💞
Can't belive what a versatile personality she was
Wanna see her biopic please provide the link
There is a German movie from 2011 called Carl & Bertha. Here is a scene from it with English subs (click CC): ua-cam.com/video/DFwnfWAdgBs/v-deo.html
What's left is for them to say that the idea for the car was hers, but Carl stole it from her😄. What he did was bold, and logistically a disaster, but it worked.
It was a publicity stunt . . . AND IT WORKED!
And her name should have been on the car as well next to the inventor Benz.
I have a Bertha Benz car.
Dieses Gesichte habe ich erste mal als ich im Pforzheim zum Goldschmied Schule besucht haben gehört , schöne Stadt Pforzheim nur Goldschmied Stadt vor ziehen der Temperament der Pforzheimer Damen unbekannt bleiben
As all women.... She waited at the finish line for carl benz.
must be a shock to most Americans, the first car been made by a German ( and not Ford ) and the first driver a woman!
,,, and even twenty years before fords first car ,,
I love bmw
why ever old phoTis of m GreaT Grandma
+ her daughTer my Granfma
were
stolen as well
Bertha was easily replaceable. Her husband was not. What Bertha contributed was finance from her large dowry, which enabled Karl to build an industry.