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| IN 1888 BERTHA BENZ became the first person ever to take a car on a road trip. Her perfectionist husband, Karl, had patented his Motorwagen three years earlier, but refused to bring it out of the shed until it was finished. But Bertha had other ideas & early one morning, while Karl was still sleeping, she snuck the car out onto the street & with her two sons aboard, headed off for Grandma’s house, in Pforzheim, one hundred kilometres away. They had to drop into chemists along the way to refuel (the car ran on cleaning fluid). They visited a blacksmith to repair a broken drive chain & a cobbler to replace the leather brake chock, & Bertha used a straightened out hairpin to clean a blocked fuel line. They arrived safely at Grandma’s house on dusk, sent a telegram home to Karl, stayed the night & headed back home the next day. | |