Woman and auto - how it all began!

Woman and auto - how it all began!

The history of relations between the woman and the car started in 1888 and it was connected with the name of Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first truly working-self-gasoline crew, patented the two years earlier. Together with his sons Frau Bert has made the first trip to the town of Pforzheim, overcoming 180 km. Moreover, they did it in secret from Karl Benz, which by that time had doubted the commercial perspective of the invention. Imperfection of the first car made the trip very difficult. For example, rises to overcome the moving crew could only with the help of physical effort passengers, while gasoline inventories had to replenish very often, buying countless bottles of gasoline, which in those days sold in pharmacies. But, in spite of everything, the goal was achieved: the Frau Benz proved that the invention her husband is not useless technical eccentricity, and the beginning of the era of the car.
In the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century, women actively participated in the development of this miracle of engineering, participated in competitions and auto races, but, of course, they were then very very little. The attitude of the contemporaries to this brave ladies were very wary: behind the wheel of a «motor», it was believed, can take only a very emancipated and eccentric lady.
Our congratulations to every woman, linking his life with the car! No nail you, no wand!