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Karl Benz and Creating the First Automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen
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The journey to create the first automobile to be manufactured and sold to the public was full of setbacks, challenges, disappointment, and heartache.
But Karl Benz persevered with a, "youthful drive, strong will to live, and confidence in himself."
Along with an education from one of the great engineering masters of our time, Karl Benz was also blessed with discovering, "the foundation of his life's happiness." His wife, Bertha Benz.
Karl wrote about meeting his wife, Bertha,
"It was like a second mainspring for my creative drives, giving me constantly renewing source of energy with which to overcome frustrating obstacles."
The amazing creators story of Karl Benz will give you a new perspective on dedication, hard work, and commitment.
"Anyone who has had to make his own way, as I have, working since he was a little boy, has a more natural understanding for the joys and sorrows of a working man than do others, who know of want and anxiety among the poorer classes only from hearsay. Meeting fidelity with fidelity has always been a cardinal principle of life for me.”
- Karl Benz, on his 80th Birthday, November 25th, 1924
(From the amazing book, 'From Engines to Autos," first published in 1960, by Friedrich Schilberger, Eugen Diesel, and Gustav Goldbeck)
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