That last shot of that child smiling... almost as if the innocent future smiling at what's to come! That last shot always gets me. Cinematography, music...all top notch!
actually,i saw a documentary about this a few days ago.at these days his car wasnt a succes,there where just no gasstations,so every thing went complicated and the people didnt liked it.but Bertha belived in it and stole it for this trip.the breaks were pretty bad and she came with the idea to put some stripes of leather on it,which made the breaks much more better,so she kinda invited the break pads.after all,she made it in 12hrs,with a horse you need 2 days with a night break.that proved how much better the "car "was,compared to the horse.after it went public and Carl improved the car with the inventions his wife made,it became a succes.
Karl Benz may have built the car, but he saw it as a plaything and just drove it round the courtyard. It was Bertha's inspiration to see it as a practical means of transport and actually prove that it worked.
In 2012 l went to see the Hockenheimring F1 race and we went to a place which was part of the road which she drove on, which was also part of the old and long Hockenheimring. That whole trip was like a pilgrimige for a pertol head. Also the Jim Clarck accident site and memorial is there. We also went to nearby Manheim where the car was invented and to nearby Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart. On the way back we visited Sinsheim and Speyer museums which are beyond amazing. What a trip. That area is genesis. Everybody who loves cars should go there
A little fun fact. The patent is for an motorwagen. My father drives antique horse drawn carriages. He has one of the last models build before cars became the standard and the model is called an autowagen😊
What makes this journey so great is the fact that NONE of the infrastructure to support cars existed yet. No gas stations (of course). But even modern roads didn't exist. A part of Bertha's journey was on a roman road. Yes, they still used to roads of Roman Empire in the 1800s! The existing roads weren't built with cars in mind but rather horse carriages. (Horses don't mind a muddy track, cars do. Especially cars with the slim wheels used at the time). And neither existed car chauffeurs yet. Back in the day, rich people (and you had to be VERY rich to afford a car!) didn't drive their carriages themselves - they had drivers. But when no driver knows how to drive a motor car, you wouldn't buy one. Bertha's journey - and the fact that she was a woman - helped tremendously on that front as well: how hard can it be to learn how to drive one of those new fangled motor cars if even a woman can do it? (That's not me talking. I am just quoting the attitude at the time).
This dramatisation looks like 1788 and people react like it's 1688. Aside from the fact that even back then village folks wouldn't treat a woman of obvious standing that way. That whole area was a centre of industry in the 1880s, with decades-old train lines crisscrossing it. And while the farming villages that dotted the landscape had not yet changed very much, people were well aware of what was going on in and near the cities that were just half a day's walk away.
The four greatest minds in the automotive industry. Carl Benz, Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler as inventors of the automobile. Henry Ford, inventor of the production line.
She was also the first to do a proper indurance run in the Patent Motorwagen. Carl Benz only took the car out on short drives until something minor failed. Her Jouney unveiled so many more issues that it convinced him to push the car more to it's limits. So technically she is also the worlds first proper test driver.
There is a video on TH-cam, called "Germany’s Oldest Street-Legal Car" - its a Benz Viktoria from 1894. U should look it up, if u want to see more about these old vehicles.
We learned her story in history back in school. But since I saw the movie in television as an adult I could not imagine which courage she had an journey she made.
we learned at school in history, that the first train was a similar story. The people protested that the train would make the cows crazy and don't give any more milk. Yes the cows went crazy but only for a few days and after it the cows were fine. people weren't they were still against trains for a while.
That video is amazing. I first saw it a few years ago and the production is first class. I love the look on the little girl's face at the end after seeing an amazing female role model.
regarding the "hand starting an engine"... that was actually a problem with early cars... there were quite a few people killed or injured by winders back then... main reason why they invented electric starters
The term "Power-Couple" fits on so many levels to those two. It is such a beautiful story. Fun fact: That exact route is nowadays a testing route for the self driving cars for Mercedes. There is somewhere a video about that too.
I own a kind of biografy of Karl Benz (written 1936). The book is named "BENZ - Lebensfahrt eines deutschen Erfinders"/ BENZ - journey of life of a german inventor). The part with the "Ligroin" in the movie wasn´t that dramatically in reality.
Yes it seems to be a common misconception in the States - people thinking Henry Ford invented the car. He invented mass-production but certainly not the car.
@@Arsenic71 He didn't even invent mass production or the assembly line and for sure not the car, that's just something Americans think for some bizzare reason.
@@Arsenic71 Mass-production via assembly line was invented by the french. To build a car via assembly line was the idea of a group of black engineers, Ford stole their idea and then told everybody else that it was his idea all along.
The first working windshield wiper for a car was invented in 1903 by the American Mary Anderson (patent 1905), and in the 1910s windshield wipers became standard equipment on cars.
I’m from the town where she was born and the story is, that her husband invented that car and she supported him an d worked with him. But he was to afraid to present the car to world…and so she “stole” the car one morning and traveled like in the movie described. The rest is history….
You spelled Pforzheim pretty well. 😊👍 Interesting is, that Carl Benz was not the only inventor, that built a car in this year. Gottlieb Daimler did it also. Carl's was a three wheeler, Gottliebs had 4 wheels. One of them, not sure, who it was, also invented the first motorcycle.
Benz constructed his three-wheeler AROUND his engine, while Daimler just took a conventional carriage and put an engine in. Daimler also experimented with motorboats and he constructed a woden-framed motorcycle as early as 1885.
Sorry to say, but that film is not historically accurate at all. The setting is ridiculous and the reactions of the people are just nonsensical. We're talking about the age post industrial revolution. But here's a few fun historical tidbits about this trip. Bertha and her sons didn't actually know the way to Pforzheim and just went to places they knew that were kinda on the way and the just asked for the right way. Bertha also invented the first brake pads during the trip, when the rudimentary brakes (wooden blocks) were worn out and weren't capable of slowing the car during downhill sections and she asked a shoe maker to put leather strips on the brakes, which performed better and she could easily change them once they were worn out. The car broke down a few times from things like a clogged fuel or a worn out ignition wire, which Bertha fixed herself, with things she had on her. The car only had 2 gears, which weren't enough for getting uphill, so her sons had to push it. One of the first improvements Carl made to the car was to add another gear, so it could go uphill. Bertha basically stole the car, because Carl didn't really believe it would be a success, so she set out to prove to him that it would be. Word spread and half way through her trip, people and press were waiting to see her driving the car. Not only did she prove to Carl that the car would be a success, she got the attention of the people and the media. I guess the rest is history. Bertha was an inventor, mechanic, PR genius and probably the world's first real test driver
Gottlieb Daimler (the conteporary of Benz that Dirk Ulowetz mentioned) named his cars after his daughter. Her name was "Mercedes". ;) The two companies merged a few years later. I had a friend in college who was into vintage Mercs. Every time I'd mention that my old BMWs could do x,y, and z "better", he'd say "Maybe..but I'll stick with the guys who invented the thing." I hope he still has his '64 "Pagoda" SL..I'll bet that car would be worth $60K these days.
Mercedes was not Daimler's daughter, she was the daughter of Emil Jelinek, an Austrian entrepreneur who invested in Daimler race cars and named them after his daughter "Mercedes" (he actually named pretty much everything after her, their house at the french Riviera was "Villa Mercedes" and so on). So when his race cars won a race, people wanted to buy a Mercedes, hence Daimler started to call his car line-up "Mercedes".... BTW, the Jelinek family was Jewish, so Hitler and his ilk drove around in a car that was named after a little jewish girl...
@@shi01 , that's amazing! I knew collectors valued them - but not *that* much! They are pretty cars, though. And I actually enjoyed the way my buddy's car handled more than the chassis that replaced it in the '70s.
No, that was some man with the typical Austrian name of "Jellinek" (What are three people from Vienna? Two Czechs). He was an early race-driver and had an agreement with the Daimler Company: If they allowed him to put the brand name of his daughter Mercedes onto their cars he would promote their sale. That PR-couo must have worked. Gottlieb Daimler had long been dead by then. He only lived to the year 1900.
I have a documentary somewhere on my computer, with a lengthy story telling of this trip she made. She actually took the car, without her husband knowing, because she wanted to promote and prove a concept. The automobile.
I have an idea. GTA Bertha 1890 Hmm ... but maybe it's boring. No speedlimits No trafficsigns Even "drink and drive" is not forbidden THE GOOD OLD TIMES
Yes! In 1888 and the Americans, contrary to popular belief, never invented the automobile (let alone the steam engine). The Americans did, however, come up with the Autoped in 1915.
I think there is a mod in the game assetta corsa where you can download the first Benz car and drive it on the Nürburgring. It takes a while to get to the finish..... I have seen an exact working replica of this car in a Dutch automobile museum.
Just to destroy a popular myth: "Motorwagen #1" with its flimsy wheels from "penny-farthing" bicycles and its faulty steering was nothing but a prototype and failed on cobbled streets or dirt roads. Dr. Dunlop had not yet made his important invention or at least Benz had not heard of it, either. Benz took "Motorwagen #1" to pieces again and started work on "#2" and then "#3". Those prototyes had more durable conventional "artillery wheels" with wooden spokes and a much stronger frame. And it was that very "#3" that his wife used for her journey. It was later sold and as far as I know is a museum exhibit either in London ("Science Museum" in South Kensington) or as a loan in the Benz-Museum in Benz's place of birth (NOT the Daimler-Benz Museum in Stuttgart). The remaining parts of "Motorwagen #1" were later given to the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich which opened its doors in the early 1900s. As the blueprints had survived in Carl Benz's drawers as well, it was possible to reconstruct the car to its original appearance. All those many replicas that puff around all over the world are based on that. Carl Benz died in 1929, his wife Bertha outlived him for another 15 years. Benz's rival Gottlieb Daimler had been half a generation older, he died in 1900. Benz and Daimler never met in life, maybe their lawyers did as there were lawcases about patent rights.
This was a documentary on National Geographic or History channel a couple of years back. I was stunned by the story of Benz together mr Maybach that invented the functional carburator with Benz, aswel the Story of dr ing Ferdinant Porsche was impresing.
IDK if anyone said it yet, but she wasnt just the first person to drive a car, she was also the first person who was known for "driving without a licence" To test that thing legaly, the Emperor himself gave Karl Benz the licence to drive it on the road. The first ever drivers licence. However it was handed to Karl Benz, but Berta was like "Na, im the one who test it."
Witch? It's a bit of an exaggeration to call out a witch but if it was a village then indeed people may have thought they were seeing a witch. Some information. The locomotive was invented in 1804. And loco looks more like a monster than this vehicle from Benz. --------------------------- The first internal combustion, petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen. It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, in 1885. ------------------------- The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam to drive the engine by one power stroke. -------------------- 1783. Arguably the first really successful steamboat, the Pyroscaphe was built by Claude-François-Dorothée, Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans. She was a paddle steamer whereby a steam engine would power sidewheels, or paddles, that would move the vessel through the water. -------------------- In 1863 the Sub Marine Explorer was built by the German American engineer Julius H. Kroehl, and featured a pressurized work chamber for the crew to exit and enter underwater. This pre-figured modern diving arrangements such as the lock-out dive chamber, though the problems of decompression sickness were not well understood at the time.[26] After its public maiden dive in 1866, the Sub Marine Explorer was used for pearl diving off the coast of Panama. It was capable of diving deeper than 31 m (102 ft), deeper than any other submarine built before. ------------------- The development of various types of vehicles has even exploded. Cars (vehicles with engines) practically appeared last. Practically because only airplanes appeared later because in 1903 thanks to the Wright brothers. Holy crap, dishwashers appeared in 1850! --------------------- Robert Anderson is often credited with inventing the first electric car some time between 1832 and 1839. The following experimental electric cars appeared during the 1880s: In 1881, Gustave Trouvé presented an electric car driven by an improved Siemens motor at the Exposition internationale d'Électricité de Paris. In 1884, over 20 years before the Ford Model T, Thomas Parker built an electric car in Wolverhampton using his own specially-designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries, although the only documentation is a photograph from 1895. In 1888, the German Andreas Flocken designed the Flocken Elektrowagen, regarded by some as the first "real" electric car. ---------------------- We often forget about the real inventors because "the famous ones" overshadow the original authors of various inventions.
in 1888 in whole Europe trains were pretty normal transport, so i don´t think that car would be such technical mirracle from another world for people. ;)
Many people had already seen Steam Driven Vehicles so yes there would have been pockets of people who had never seen any self propelled vehicles hence their reaction.
And that is why we call the fuel in germany "Benz-In" the legacy lives in in the Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) brand... And diesel fuel is of course named after ferdinant diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine. It amazes me how many americans wonder if germans have electricity (not kidding) but then they go on driving a car completely ignorant to its history.... (they usually answer ford invented the car. But all ford invented was the conveyer-belt-assembly line production method) Then they get into a plane (jet engine) .... to get x-rayed (ferdinant braun) in a clinic somewhere else, and while waiting for their appointment they watch on TV (Ferdinant braun) how another rocket (Wernherr von braun) goes into orbit.... I guess, when all hollywood and allied-history books ever teach is that germans are the villains, it is kinda required to brush under the carpet that the world would not move as it does without them and their ingenuity. The only "braun" they ever will remember is hitlers spouse "eva" who had invented about nothing, and also contributed nothing to the world. Some education that is The english may know better, but there too goes the legend they had invented the first computer and jet engine, and both claims are proven to be wrong... Patriotism i guess. Good sport it is not.
I thought the same Ian I was thinking that they could make a tv series or movie because I would watch it for sure if that short video is anything to go by
Not only were there no cars, there were also no real roads or road maps. If you asked for directions along the way, the other person had probably never seen the destination because it would have been a two-day journey by horse-drawn carriage. Here is an English documentary from the BBC= The world's first long-distance car journey - BBC REEL th-cam.com/video/Bb5EIWymZp4/w-d-xo.html
But the EV haters alive back then (called Luddites) would be saying Oh you'll have range anxiety, There is no Infrastructure, No suitable Roads only good For Horses and Cattle. It scares the Kids with the Noise ....etc,etc
Have you seen the old colorized footage from 1906 or 1911 New York? At least half the vehicles in that are horse and carriage..I mean cars are still such a new concept. This modern way of living is still very new. Horses were used for everything before then. We were living the same way for thousands of years. Riding animals...that was as normal as it got. Riding cars was abnormal. haha If the modern world still exists and is progressing in 50 or so years rather than just collapsing or decaying, I wonder what that footage will look like. I'm sure it'll be something beyond battery powered cars, some kind of wireless energy perhaps. Hopefully we still have horses though because at some point all this will collapse and we'll revert back to the horse and buggy..that's just how it works.
Wow that's a neat car. Crazy very brave women. I don't think I would have done that. love to you and the family. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care. PEACE ☮️ an old cockney gal. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all. 🎄⛄🍺🕊️🎁❄️🦃🍷🍾
Steam engines and the railway were already commonplace at that time. As dramatic as the reactions were portrayed in the film, it is certainly exaggerated.
Exactly, 1888 was over 50 years after first railway was opened in Prussia (1835), in 1880 German railway was operating 9400 locomotives, transporting over 400 million passengers a year. Seeng car was definitelly a huge thing, but noone would see witchcraft in that.
@@Grushkovy 1835 is correct, but it wasn't in Prussia but in Bavaria, between Fuerth and Nuremberg. The line operated until the early 1920's. It was closed down due to competition with a tramline which was established right next to the train tracks in the 1880's.
She did it alone, as her husband invented the automobile, did not believe in his invention she had a famous press resonance and enabled the selling progress. This is a DB ad.
I see big ads when I watch TH-cam now too, I heard that TH-cam pushes longer ads for lots of channels around Christmas time because of all the shopping
"A which is coming"... OK, there was a bit too much drama in this.. In 1888 there were steam engines, locomotives, steam ships all over the world for almost 70 years. This film looks like they visited the middle 1600-s.
i love this and to hell with all this about not historically accurate nothing in this world is historically accurate its all belief . and the no thing back in that time unless you had a skill or were from money for the most part you worked a day to make it to the next but that's ok .
Hi, if you want to watch something with a bit of dark german humor, may you like to watch "Staplerfahrer Klaus", everyone who made a forklifter license in germany knows this..... with best regards from germany
The first driver was female... And what a female. BTW I don't know where they shot the scenes, but believe me there were never donkeys in a German pub. It was a wealthy region, the best soil in all of Germany. She started on the outskirts of Mannheim (where the bicycle was invented) and went past Karlsruhe (look at the castles of Mannheim and Karlsruhe) to the capitol of German jewellers, Pforzheim. The pharmacy is still in existence... There has been a statue erected in memory of that fuel stop.
Too bad it's not really the first one. The first journey in car, outside cities, was Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the two-stroke engine. He made a 6-7 miles in the countryside of Paris, in 1862. Siegfried Markus did the same thing in the countryside of Vienna, in 1870 ... but being a Jew, his heritage was destroyed during WW2, in favor of Daimler and Benz.
The girl the Mercedes cars are named after was Jewish. While Siegfried Markus converted 25 years old to Protestantism. The 1870 ride of Siegfried Markus is disputed. Others time it considerably later. Siegfried Markus owned 130 patents, mostly related to combustion engines. Thus he was obviously aware of this procedure and also wealthy enough to apply for patents. He never disputed the patent of Carl Benz (unlike Gottlieb Daimler). Despite living the longer part of his life in Vienna he kept his Mecklenburg-Schwerin citizenship, was such as German as Carl Benz (Baden) and Gottlieb Daimler (Württemberg).
At that time (1888) was engines well introduced both on trains and ships plus in industry. So that both work or self propelling vehicle of sorts were around was nothing new. Hence the video seems quite a bit over dramatised. The only correct there might be that the horses could react. On the lake of Mjøsa in Norway are there still a paddle steamship in traffic (worlds oldest in traffic )....and that one was put into operation in 1856. So here is a video you can react to about that unique ship: th-cam.com/video/_vS_SywnKXA/w-d-xo.html
Something some may find interesting, the oldest car makers are 1. Peugeot: · 2. Tatra: · 3. Opel Automobile GmbH: · 4. Mercedes Benz: · 5. Skoda. Note that two of them are Czech :)
The "She Believes In Herself" is pure Woke BS... The truth is she believe in her husband and make the journey to prove to the world he was right about cars.
what a load of bs in the video and the commentary about people back in those days ... you kids do realize that steam powered carriages and busses were a thing already for quite some time at that point? And that steam powered tractors (traction engines) worked on fields? Sure, those were still rare and expensive, but people knew about them for years in the 1880s. While a light weight car with combustion engine would certainly have raised attention, noone would be shocked or scream of witches by a carriage without a horse.
Nobody outside of London or Paris would have ever seen a steam powered vehicle that wasn’t a train and steam tractors were extremely rare. Sure, yelling witch is rather overdramatising. But comparing the Bertha Benz’ Journey in the Benz Patentwagen with some steam carriage that never caught on is pretty silly.
@@asmodon curse your poor education ... in Germany socalled Lokomobiles (mobile steam engines) slowly creeped onto fields since 1810. By 1850 already there were mutliple companies renting selfdriving steam engines aka tractors to larger farms. By 1880 every farmer at least knew well that selfdriving engines existed, quite a number even having worked alongside them. All while Germans also knew about steam busses as they were presented to the public with quite some circus (they werent unique to england/france), which ended up with a first bus line with a german-made steam bus opening up in 1884 (more following) ... they indeed had their short time of success outside of the UK and france before the combustion engine took over. Only thing amazing about the benz car was its new type of engine and tiny size/weight, not the concept of an engine driven vehicle. Steamengines of all sorts were far too famous and on everyones mind back in those days, even whereever they werent driving it was simply the thing to talk about during the industrial revolution. Also noone said these machines were equals in any way ... the criticism was about the silly idea that people would be at a loss seeing something engine driven on a street, which by the 1880 certainly wasnt the case in Germany. The Benz Patentwagen is famous and was the first commercially succesful, but not particular unique in its time ... mind you that 1863 already a first car with combustion engine was driven 18km by Étienne Lenoir and since then a couple of odd prototypes of such vehicles were build in the modern world. But business as usual, fame distorting history and creating some silly ideas about what common people knew back then.
@@asmodon come back and try again after you got yourself some actual education. Piece of advise: TH-cam is a bad school, you better look elsewhere for education.
@@diedampfbrasse98 I wrote my masters thesis in economics about local labour markets in Germany during industrialisation. But keep it up, you seem to be very knowledgeable when it comes to juvenile insults.
Same hostility happens to EV Drivers now days. There are always the old-ways-people who don´t like change and fear change and therefore hate all people that do changes and like progress
The reality is that some things don't change. Look at the present situation in the world where you have people lying and misleading the public and those who are trying to tell the truth are treated like this woman by gullible morons who just believe whatever garbage they are being told.
@anth5189 this woman wasnt treated that way. This is just an over dramatised story. I don't understand why they can't just make a video based on historical facts... but instead create this drama story. It's a shame!
That last shot of that child smiling... almost as if the innocent future smiling at what's to come! That last shot always gets me. Cinematography, music...all top notch!
actually,i saw a documentary about this a few days ago.at these days his car wasnt a succes,there where just no gasstations,so every thing went complicated and the people didnt liked it.but Bertha belived in it and stole it for this trip.the breaks were pretty bad and she came with the idea to put some stripes of leather on it,which made the breaks much more better,so she kinda invited the break pads.after all,she made it in 12hrs,with a horse you need 2 days with a night break.that proved how much better the "car "was,compared to the horse.after it went public and Carl improved the car with the inventions his wife made,it became a succes.
Karl Benz may have built the car, but he saw it as a plaything and just drove it round the courtyard. It was Bertha's inspiration to see it as a practical means of transport and actually prove that it worked.
Karl Benz was a legendary inventor. Bertha was just absolute legend
“Mercedes Benz,The best or nothing” ♥️
Bertha Benz was the first woman who snatched her husbands Car for a roadtrip to had some fun^^
In 2012 l went to see the Hockenheimring F1 race and we went to a place which was part of the road which she drove on, which was also part of the old and long Hockenheimring. That whole trip was like a pilgrimige for a pertol head. Also the Jim Clarck accident site and memorial is there. We also went to nearby Manheim where the car was invented and to nearby Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart. On the way back we visited Sinsheim and Speyer museums which are beyond amazing. What a trip. That area is genesis. Everybody who loves cars should go there
A great but also accurate advertisement.This region has a lot to offer,including the wine route,the Black Forest,and the French Alsace.
Great information sounds intriguing 😎
Talking about "every strong man needs a strong woman". Bertha Benz sure was one!
A little fun fact. The patent is for an motorwagen. My father drives antique horse drawn carriages. He has one of the last models build before cars became the standard and the model is called an autowagen😊
What makes this journey so great is the fact that NONE of the infrastructure to support cars existed yet.
No gas stations (of course).
But even modern roads didn't exist. A part of Bertha's journey was on a roman road. Yes, they still used to roads of Roman Empire in the 1800s! The existing roads weren't built with cars in mind but rather horse carriages. (Horses don't mind a muddy track, cars do. Especially cars with the slim wheels used at the time).
And neither existed car chauffeurs yet. Back in the day, rich people (and you had to be VERY rich to afford a car!) didn't drive their carriages themselves - they had drivers. But when no driver knows how to drive a motor car, you wouldn't buy one. Bertha's journey - and the fact that she was a woman - helped tremendously on that front as well: how hard can it be to learn how to drive one of those new fangled motor cars if even a woman can do it? (That's not me talking. I am just quoting the attitude at the time).
This dramatisation looks like 1788 and people react like it's 1688. Aside from the fact that even back then village folks wouldn't treat a woman of obvious standing that way.
That whole area was a centre of industry in the 1880s, with decades-old train lines crisscrossing it. And while the farming villages that dotted the landscape had not yet changed very much, people were well aware of what was going on in and near the cities that were just half a day's walk away.
The four greatest minds in the automotive industry. Carl Benz, Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler as inventors of the automobile. Henry Ford, inventor of the production line.
Hey, what about Siegfried Markus?
Add Bertha Benz to that won't ya?
LOUIS RENAULT INVENTEUR DE LA BOÎTE DE VITESSE À PRISE DIRECTE 1898 ! 🇫🇷
The "Bertha Benz Route" is signposted. I have often cycled this route
If you think more about it you must have goosebumps cuz this is it this is the moment that is beginning of ours mobility and freedom.
She was also the first to do a proper indurance run in the Patent Motorwagen. Carl Benz only took the car out on short drives until something minor failed. Her Jouney unveiled so many more issues that it convinced him to push the car more to it's limits. So technically she is also the worlds first proper test driver.
There is a video on TH-cam, called "Germany’s Oldest Street-Legal Car" - its a Benz Viktoria from 1894. U should look it up, if u want to see more about these old vehicles.
My mother remembered seeing her first car. She was about 10. That was in the late 20s near Rotterdam!
@JarlavDonShe was perplexed.
We learned her story in history back in school. But since I saw the movie in television as an adult I could not imagine which courage she had an journey she made.
we learned at school in history, that the first train was a similar story.
The people protested that the train would make the cows crazy and don't give any more milk. Yes the cows went crazy but only for a few days and after it the cows were fine. people weren't they were still against trains for a while.
That video is amazing. I first saw it a few years ago and the production is first class. I love the look on the little girl's face at the end after seeing an amazing female role model.
regarding the "hand starting an engine"... that was actually a problem with early cars... there were quite a few people killed or injured by winders back then...
main reason why they invented electric starters
The term "Power-Couple" fits on so many levels to those two. It is such a beautiful story. Fun fact: That exact route is nowadays a testing route for the self driving cars for Mercedes. There is somewhere a video about that too.
I own a kind of biografy of Karl Benz (written 1936). The book is named "BENZ - Lebensfahrt eines deutschen Erfinders"/ BENZ - journey of life of a german inventor). The part with the "Ligroin" in the movie wasn´t that dramatically in reality.
Americans: "We invented the car!"
Young german girl: "Hold my Mercedes-Benz steeringwheel...!" XD
Yes it seems to be a common misconception in the States - people thinking Henry Ford invented the car. He invented mass-production but certainly not the car.
@@Arsenic71 He didn't even invent mass production or the assembly line and for sure not the car, that's just something Americans think for some bizzare reason.
@@Arsenic71 Mass-production via assembly line was invented by the french. To build a car via assembly line was the idea of a group of black engineers, Ford stole their idea and then told everybody else that it was his idea all along.
The first working windshield wiper for a car was invented in 1903 by the American Mary Anderson (patent 1905), and in the 1910s windshield wipers became standard equipment on cars.
I’m from the town where she was born and the story is, that her husband invented that car and she supported him an d worked with him. But he was to afraid to present the car to world…and so she “stole” the car one morning and traveled like in the movie described. The rest is history….
You spelled Pforzheim pretty well. 😊👍
Interesting is, that Carl Benz was not the only inventor, that built a car in this year. Gottlieb Daimler did it also. Carl's was a three wheeler, Gottliebs had 4 wheels. One of them, not sure, who it was, also invented the first motorcycle.
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Daimler Motor Carriage
Benz constructed his three-wheeler AROUND his engine, while Daimler just took a conventional carriage and put an engine in. Daimler also experimented with motorboats and he constructed a woden-framed motorcycle as early as 1885.
it is "pronounced", not "spelled", but yes, he did that pretty good.
Sorry to say, but that film is not historically accurate at all. The setting is ridiculous and the reactions of the people are just nonsensical. We're talking about the age post industrial revolution.
But here's a few fun historical tidbits about this trip. Bertha and her sons didn't actually know the way to Pforzheim and just went to places they knew that were kinda on the way and the just asked for the right way.
Bertha also invented the first brake pads during the trip, when the rudimentary brakes (wooden blocks) were worn out and weren't capable of slowing the car during downhill sections and she asked a shoe maker to put leather strips on the brakes, which performed better and she could easily change them once they were worn out.
The car broke down a few times from things like a clogged fuel or a worn out ignition wire, which Bertha fixed herself, with things she had on her.
The car only had 2 gears, which weren't enough for getting uphill, so her sons had to push it. One of the first improvements Carl made to the car was to add another gear, so it could go uphill.
Bertha basically stole the car, because Carl didn't really believe it would be a success, so she set out to prove to him that it would be. Word spread and half way through her trip, people and press were waiting to see her driving the car. Not only did she prove to Carl that the car would be a success, she got the attention of the people and the media. I guess the rest is history.
Bertha was an inventor, mechanic, PR genius and probably the world's first real test driver
Gottlieb Daimler (the conteporary of Benz that Dirk Ulowetz mentioned) named his cars after his daughter. Her name was "Mercedes". ;) The two companies merged a few years later. I had a friend in college who was into vintage Mercs. Every time I'd mention that my old BMWs could do x,y, and z "better", he'd say "Maybe..but I'll stick with the guys who invented the thing."
I hope he still has his '64 "Pagoda" SL..I'll bet that car would be worth $60K these days.
Mercedes was not Daimler's daughter, she was the daughter of Emil Jelinek, an Austrian entrepreneur who invested in Daimler race cars and named them after his daughter "Mercedes" (he actually named pretty much everything after her, their house at the french Riviera was "Villa Mercedes" and so on). So when his race cars won a race, people wanted to buy a Mercedes, hence Daimler started to call his car line-up "Mercedes".... BTW, the Jelinek family was Jewish, so Hitler and his ilk drove around in a car that was named after a little jewish girl...
@@outwest59 , thanks for the clarification! Man, to think I've been wrong for so many years.. :D
$60k for a well maintained "Pagode" would be a bargain. These things can go up to $150k these days.
@@shi01 , that's amazing! I knew collectors valued them - but not *that* much! They are pretty cars, though. And I actually enjoyed the way my buddy's car handled more than the chassis that replaced it in the '70s.
No, that was some man with the typical Austrian name of "Jellinek" (What are three people from Vienna? Two Czechs). He was an early race-driver and had an agreement with the Daimler Company: If they allowed him to put the brand name of his daughter Mercedes onto their cars he would promote their sale. That PR-couo must have worked. Gottlieb Daimler had long been dead by then. He only lived to the year 1900.
I have a documentary somewhere on my computer, with a lengthy story telling of this trip she made.
She actually took the car, without her husband knowing, because she wanted to promote and prove a concept. The automobile.
Which made her the first car thief 😆
I have an idea.
GTA Bertha 1890
Hmm ... but maybe it's boring.
No speedlimits
No trafficsigns
Even "drink and drive" is not forbidden
THE GOOD OLD TIMES
Yes! In 1888 and the Americans, contrary to popular belief, never invented the automobile (let alone the steam engine). The Americans did, however, come up with the Autoped in 1915.
Before I retired, part of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route was my daily route to work.
I think there is a mod in the game assetta corsa where you can download the first Benz car and drive it on the Nürburgring. It takes a while to get to the finish..... I have seen an exact working replica of this car in a Dutch automobile museum.
If you ever go to Germany, make sure you visit the Mercedes Benz HQ/Museum.
Just to destroy a popular myth: "Motorwagen #1" with its flimsy wheels from "penny-farthing" bicycles and its faulty steering was nothing but a prototype and failed on cobbled streets or dirt roads. Dr. Dunlop had not yet made his important invention or at least Benz had not heard of it, either. Benz took "Motorwagen #1" to pieces again and started work on "#2" and then "#3". Those prototyes had more durable conventional "artillery wheels" with wooden spokes and a much stronger frame. And it was that very "#3" that his wife used for her journey. It was later sold and as far as I know is a museum exhibit either in London ("Science Museum" in South Kensington) or as a loan in the Benz-Museum in Benz's place of birth (NOT the Daimler-Benz Museum in Stuttgart). The remaining parts of "Motorwagen #1" were later given to the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich which opened its doors in the early 1900s. As the blueprints had survived in Carl Benz's drawers as well, it was possible to reconstruct the car to its original appearance. All those many replicas that puff around all over the world are based on that. Carl Benz died in 1929, his wife Bertha outlived him for another 15 years. Benz's rival Gottlieb Daimler had been half a generation older, he died in 1900. Benz and Daimler never met in life, maybe their lawyers did as there were lawcases about patent rights.
This was a documentary on National Geographic or History channel a couple of years back.
I was stunned by the story of Benz together mr Maybach that invented the functional carburator with Benz, aswel the Story of dr ing Ferdinant Porsche was impresing.
Thanks for great video!
A very Suttle commercial but extremely powerful on the message being sent.
Carl & Bertha, a movie from 2011 for example. It does contain some historical facts 😉
IDK if anyone said it yet, but she wasnt just the first person to drive a car, she was also the first person who was known for "driving without a licence" To test that thing legaly, the Emperor himself gave Karl Benz the licence to drive it on the road. The first ever drivers licence. However it was handed to Karl Benz, but Berta was like "Na, im the one who test it."
Witch? It's a bit of an exaggeration to call out a witch but if it was a village then indeed people may have thought they were seeing a witch. Some information.
The locomotive was invented in 1804. And loco looks more like a monster than this vehicle from Benz.
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The first internal combustion, petroleum fueled motorcycle was the Daimler Reitwagen. It was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, in 1885.
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The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam to drive the engine by one power stroke.
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1783. Arguably the first really successful steamboat, the Pyroscaphe was built by Claude-François-Dorothée, Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans. She was a paddle steamer whereby a steam engine would power sidewheels, or paddles, that would move the vessel through the water.
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In 1863 the Sub Marine Explorer was built by the German American engineer Julius H. Kroehl, and featured a pressurized work chamber for the crew to exit and enter underwater. This pre-figured modern diving arrangements such as the lock-out dive chamber, though the problems of decompression sickness were not well understood at the time.[26] After its public maiden dive in 1866, the Sub Marine Explorer was used for pearl diving off the coast of Panama. It was capable of diving deeper than 31 m (102 ft), deeper than any other submarine built before.
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The development of various types of vehicles has even exploded. Cars (vehicles with engines) practically appeared last. Practically because only airplanes appeared later because in 1903 thanks to the Wright brothers. Holy crap, dishwashers appeared in 1850!
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Robert Anderson is often credited with inventing the first electric car some time between 1832 and 1839.
The following experimental electric cars appeared during the 1880s:
In 1881, Gustave Trouvé presented an electric car driven by an improved Siemens motor at the Exposition internationale d'Électricité de Paris.
In 1884, over 20 years before the Ford Model T, Thomas Parker built an electric car in Wolverhampton using his own specially-designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries, although the only documentation is a photograph from 1895.
In 1888, the German Andreas Flocken designed the Flocken Elektrowagen, regarded by some as the first "real" electric car.
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We often forget about the real inventors because "the famous ones" overshadow the original authors of various inventions.
in 1888 in whole Europe trains were pretty normal transport, so i don´t think that car would be such technical mirracle from another world for people. ;)
This short is better in acting, atmosphere and in most aspects than a whole bunch of recent Netflix shows and cinema movies. Brilliant!
That was cool!
Great video as per. Not a movie, but the Donut team did a Past Gas podcast episode on this story, well worth the listen.
Many people had already seen Steam Driven Vehicles so yes there would have been pockets of people who had never seen any self propelled vehicles hence their reaction.
Your pronunciation of Pforzheim was spot on.
And that is why we call the fuel in germany "Benz-In" the legacy lives in in the Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) brand...
And diesel fuel is of course named after ferdinant diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine.
It amazes me how many americans wonder if germans have electricity (not kidding) but then they go on driving a car completely ignorant to its history....
(they usually answer ford invented the car. But all ford invented was the conveyer-belt-assembly line production method)
Then they get into a plane (jet engine) .... to get x-rayed (ferdinant braun) in a clinic somewhere else, and while waiting for their appointment they watch on TV (Ferdinant braun) how another rocket (Wernherr von braun) goes into orbit....
I guess, when all hollywood and allied-history books ever teach is that germans are the villains, it is kinda required to brush under the carpet that the world would not move as it does without them and their ingenuity. The only "braun" they ever will remember is hitlers spouse "eva" who had invented about nothing, and also contributed nothing to the world.
Some education that is
The english may know better, but there too goes the legend they had invented the first computer and jet engine, and both claims are proven to be wrong...
Patriotism i guess. Good sport it is not.
She took her sons with her because the car couldn’t go uphill very well. So the sons had to got off and push whenever they got to a hill.
I thought the same Ian I was thinking that they could make a tv series or movie because I would watch it for sure if that short video is anything to go by
There is a TV-movie ("Carl & Bertha") from 2011. 🙂
Carl & Bertha the movie 2011 but not conected with this short clip this is from 2019
5:40 it´s fine, close enough
That's nice but this is better ;-) The Beast of Turin returns to Goodwood
Not only were there no cars, there were also no real roads or road maps. If you asked for directions along the way, the other person had probably never seen the destination because it would have been a two-day journey by horse-drawn carriage. Here is an English documentary from the BBC= The world's first long-distance car journey - BBC REEL th-cam.com/video/Bb5EIWymZp4/w-d-xo.html
You shoud look for the movie and Story of R. Diesel its a industrial aktion movie
But the EV haters alive back then (called Luddites) would be saying Oh you'll have range anxiety, There is no Infrastructure, No suitable Roads only good For Horses and Cattle. It scares the Kids with the Noise ....etc,etc
Have you seen the old colorized footage from 1906 or 1911 New York? At least half the vehicles in that are horse and carriage..I mean cars are still such a new concept. This modern way of living is still very new. Horses were used for everything before then. We were living the same way for thousands of years. Riding animals...that was as normal as it got. Riding cars was abnormal. haha
If the modern world still exists and is progressing in 50 or so years rather than just collapsing or decaying, I wonder what that footage will look like. I'm sure it'll be something beyond battery powered cars, some kind of wireless energy perhaps. Hopefully we still have horses though because at some point all this will collapse and we'll revert back to the horse and buggy..that's just how it works.
Bertha Benz had the balls many men wish they had. And she doesn't get the credit for that.
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Steam engines and the railway were already commonplace at that time. As dramatic as the reactions were portrayed in the film, it is certainly exaggerated.
Exactly, 1888 was over 50 years after first railway was opened in Prussia (1835), in 1880 German railway was operating 9400 locomotives, transporting over 400 million passengers a year. Seeng car was definitelly a huge thing, but noone would see witchcraft in that.
Was it really necessary to pull the plow themself didnt hade they horses or ochsen in that time ?
@@Grushkovy 1835 is correct, but it wasn't in Prussia but in Bavaria, between Fuerth and Nuremberg. The line operated until the early 1920's. It was closed down due to competition with a tramline which was established right next to the train tracks in the 1880's.
The "Badische Hauptbahn" from Mannheim over Heidelberg to Karlsruhe was build in 1840. This railway line runs along the route
She did it alone, as her husband invented the automobile, did not believe in his invention she had a famous press resonance and enabled the selling progress. This is a DB ad.
theirs a tv series cars that chanced the world that you must watch
I think the dramatization is a bit silly. They shot it like a western
I knew the story but not this video. It's great. And you spoke out Pforzheim perfectly well. Greetings from Germany. 👋
TH-cam upgraded you from one ad before the video to multiple ads.
I see big ads when I watch TH-cam now too, I heard that TH-cam pushes longer ads for lots of channels around Christmas time because of all the shopping
"A which is coming"... OK, there was a bit too much drama in this.. In 1888 there were steam engines, locomotives, steam ships all over the world for almost 70 years. This film looks like they visited the middle 1600-s.
As far as I remember her husband hasn't had the courage to drive the car.
So she took it.
Aka "The horseless carriage"
You might have gest it. And a daugther named Mercedes.
i love this and to hell with all this about not historically accurate nothing in this world is historically accurate its all belief . and the no thing back in that time unless you had a skill or were from money for the most part you worked a day to make it to the next but that's ok .
Read the history where the Benz becomes his name Mercedes by an Austrian salesmen
Same happening now for ev cars
Hi, if you want to watch something with a bit of dark german humor, may you like to watch "Staplerfahrer Klaus", everyone who made a forklifter license in germany knows this..... with best regards from germany
Day 2 video 2 of asking you to look at modern day trans am cars because they still exhaust.
One of the things the german invested first...and many more..!!!!
And she invented the disc brake. 😎
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true! ask my wife! ;)
I think your wife doesn't stand behind me :D
Beside, I would hope, not behind.
Nice history... did not now...
And one still calls a liquid a gas
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It was the 1880s. A woman rided something generating noises and stinks. Should be a whitch. Nowadays? Yeahaa! Who is right?
its exagereated
the first steam train in germany existed in 1835 !
The first driver was female... And what a female. BTW I don't know where they shot the scenes, but believe me there were never donkeys in a German pub. It was a wealthy region, the best soil in all of Germany. She started on the outskirts of Mannheim (where the bicycle was invented) and went past Karlsruhe (look at the castles of Mannheim and Karlsruhe) to the capitol of German jewellers, Pforzheim.
The pharmacy is still in existence... There has been a statue erected in memory of that fuel stop.
As far i know there is a german Movie about Bertha Benz.
LOL 5:41 Pfortzheim
Ligroine sells booming.... =)
Too bad it's not really the first one.
The first journey in car, outside cities, was Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the two-stroke engine. He made a 6-7 miles in the countryside of Paris, in 1862.
Siegfried Markus did the same thing in the countryside of Vienna, in 1870 ... but being a Jew, his heritage was destroyed during WW2, in favor of Daimler and Benz.
The girl the Mercedes cars are named after was Jewish. While Siegfried Markus converted 25 years old to Protestantism.
The 1870 ride of Siegfried Markus is disputed. Others time it considerably later.
Siegfried Markus owned 130 patents, mostly related to combustion engines. Thus he was obviously aware of this procedure and also wealthy enough to apply for patents. He never disputed the patent of Carl Benz (unlike Gottlieb Daimler). Despite living the longer part of his life in Vienna he kept his Mecklenburg-Schwerin citizenship, was such as German as Carl Benz (Baden) and Gottlieb Daimler (Württemberg).
At that time (1888) was engines well introduced both on trains and ships plus in industry. So that both work or self propelling vehicle of sorts were around was nothing new. Hence the video seems quite a bit over dramatised. The only correct there might be that the horses could react. On the lake of Mjøsa in Norway are there still a paddle steamship in traffic (worlds oldest in traffic )....and that one was put into operation in 1856.
So here is a video you can react to about that unique ship: th-cam.com/video/_vS_SywnKXA/w-d-xo.html
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Something some may find interesting, the oldest car makers are 1. Peugeot: · 2. Tatra: · 3. Opel Automobile GmbH: · 4. Mercedes Benz: · 5. Skoda. Note that two of them are Czech :)
i think the video is extremely exagerated .
And not much historically !
Where is the opressed woman in the story...🤣 People are forgetting that those couples worked together through harsh life.
Just saying...
typical movie made everything in the passed ugly and dirty... the pharmazy they got the petrol from was actualy quite nice
The "She Believes In Herself" is pure Woke BS... The truth is she believe in her husband and make the journey to prove to the world he was right about cars.
what a load of bs in the video and the commentary about people back in those days ... you kids do realize that steam powered carriages and busses were a thing already for quite some time at that point? And that steam powered tractors (traction engines) worked on fields? Sure, those were still rare and expensive, but people knew about them for years in the 1880s.
While a light weight car with combustion engine would certainly have raised attention, noone would be shocked or scream of witches by a carriage without a horse.
Nobody outside of London or Paris would have ever seen a steam powered vehicle that wasn’t a train and steam tractors were extremely rare. Sure, yelling witch is rather overdramatising. But comparing the Bertha Benz’ Journey in the Benz Patentwagen with some steam carriage that never caught on is pretty silly.
@@asmodon curse your poor education ... in Germany socalled Lokomobiles (mobile steam engines) slowly creeped onto fields since 1810. By 1850 already there were mutliple companies renting selfdriving steam engines aka tractors to larger farms. By 1880 every farmer at least knew well that selfdriving engines existed, quite a number even having worked alongside them.
All while Germans also knew about steam busses as they were presented to the public with quite some circus (they werent unique to england/france), which ended up with a first bus line with a german-made steam bus opening up in 1884 (more following) ... they indeed had their short time of success outside of the UK and france before the combustion engine took over.
Only thing amazing about the benz car was its new type of engine and tiny size/weight, not the concept of an engine driven vehicle.
Steamengines of all sorts were far too famous and on everyones mind back in those days, even whereever they werent driving it was simply the thing to talk about during the industrial revolution.
Also noone said these machines were equals in any way ... the criticism was about the silly idea that people would be at a loss seeing something engine driven on a street, which by the 1880 certainly wasnt the case in Germany.
The Benz Patentwagen is famous and was the first commercially succesful, but not particular unique in its time ... mind you that 1863 already a first car with combustion engine was driven 18km by Étienne Lenoir and since then a couple of odd prototypes of such vehicles were build in the modern world.
But business as usual, fame distorting history and creating some silly ideas about what common people knew back then.
@@diedampfbrasse98 you seem hurt that I didn’t take your silly arguing about steam buses seriously. Even back then nobody cared about them.
@@asmodon come back and try again after you got yourself some actual education. Piece of advise: TH-cam is a bad school, you better look elsewhere for education.
@@diedampfbrasse98 I wrote my masters thesis in economics about local labour markets in Germany during industrialisation. But keep it up, you seem to be very knowledgeable when it comes to juvenile insults.
Same hostility happens to EV Drivers now days. There are always the old-ways-people who don´t like change and fear change and therefore hate all people that do changes and like progress
This movie is 80% bullsh...
I dont know 80%
but a lot !
The movie is a over dramatic with a 1000 liter tank full of feminism. Don't take it to seriously.
You are right !
The reality is that some things don't change. Look at the present situation in the world where you have people lying and misleading the public and those who are trying to tell the truth are treated like this woman by gullible morons who just believe whatever garbage they are being told.
@anth5189 this woman wasnt treated that way. This is just an over dramatised story. I don't understand why they can't just make a video based on historical facts... but instead create this drama story. It's a shame!