Karl Benz (right), inventor of the first practical, modern automobile, pictured next to his wife Bertha in 1893. (Image credit: Heritage Images / Contributor via Getty Images) Karl Benz gets the ...

Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner, believed in her husband’s invention. She had been there since the beginning, and provided much of the funding for it along the way. If she hadn ...

On this day in 1886 Karl Benz patented the first internal ... actually worked in propelling a vehicle. Bertha Benz chose to publicise the new invention by proving its practicality in a long ...

Bertha Benz, Karl’s wife and business partner, believed in her husband’s invention. She had been there since the beginning, and provided much of the funding for it along the way. If she hadn ...

Karl Benz discovers a potent, portable fuel that sparks the invention of the car, leading rival Gottlieb Daimler to build a faster, more powerful engine. Skip to main content The Cars That Built ...