Karl Benz: Father of the Automobile

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[@aakib1889]

leonid brezhnev biography!

[@harveykl2532]

hello biographics, simon can you do a vlog about our fallen kenyan second president who was a dictator, he just died recently

[@yllihyka987]

@@harveykl2532 : v Gatime shqip

[@iii-ei5cv]

Excellent ad btw

[@jackclelland3230]

What

[@pamelamays4186]

Bertha Benz: Mother Of The First Road Trip. And The First Joy Ride.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

The first "teenager". LOL

[@rabbi120348]

"Are we there yet?"

[@ฟิโกโล่]

yell

[@dingrey]

And the first to make a repair to a vehicle I heard. It broke a belt and she fixed it. Maybe folklore I wasn't there....

[@tapaneenanthavisai5870]

Haha

[@carlwilliamsaxton2146]

Quite possibly the coolest story of human achievement And thank you for clearing up my belief that Karl's wife's name was Mercedes..

[@billgreen7519]

I thought is was Carls daughters name That was Mercedes.

[@semiretired86]

do a video on William Durrant who basically founded General Motors Henry Ford is also a part of this story - before he started his own company

[@iii-ei5cv]

Bertha Benz also invented the term "ride or die"

[@alecschroeter232]

Man, I wish I had a Bertha of my own.

[@aguilacalva2625]

Excellent 👍👏👏

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@LexieLPoyser]

Can you do a BioGraphics video on T.A. Peterman?

[@tuckersmoak6632]

Dam. Bertha Ringer was beautiful.

[@billyt.7306]

Do you ever wonder why we only see photographs of unnatractive women from the 1800's in history books? Schools and things want to make us think everyone was ugly back then

[@franciscomm7675]

Billy Von der Burg, that is not true. Look for example, the wife of president groover Cleveland, who was much younger than him

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

I think we can all agree Karl found himself the perfect wife.

[@silafuyang8675]

Sure, beautiful, good wife and a little crazy: best qualities for a woman.

[@DagarCoH]

@@silafuyang8675 you forgot crafty and intelligent

[@razzerjr100]

I'm glad that both Karl Benz and his wife both lived to see how important their work was.

[@MaxRideout]

Too bad it was also just long enough to see Hitler riding around in their cars...

[@dindin3655]

@@MaxRideout they are german lol iam sure they're okay with their president driving their car

[@briankarczewski8588]

I wish they could see the cars MB now has in 2022..they would be totally astonished

[@christishields2931]

Carl was a blessed man to have married a woman who truly loved him and who figured out how to rock out a 66mi. trip no one had driven before. She's an inspiration!

[@DenitaArnold]

This was great. Credit where credit is due. Ford helped develop the assembly line method. He didn't invent the car. A lot of folks tinkered with the idea for years, but Benz seems to be the first working model

[@oldenweery7510]

Thank you for saying Ford "helped develop the assembly line," since it was Ransom E. Olds who first used the assembly line to manufacture automobiles. Eli Whitney was the first firearms manufacturer in the US to use standardized parts that could be used for any of his muskets. Relatively unskilled laborers could assemble the weapons, instead of skilled artisans hand-making one of a kind firearms. Ford did refine the assembly of his automobiles, using standardized parts, by easily-trained laborers.

[@sandrastreifel6452]

“Which didn’t habitually explode” always a plus!

[@Idle724]

I live in germany and we are currently talking about benz and his importance in my history class. This helped a lot. Gonna go and impress my teacher now. Thanks

[@travismiller5548]

If you want your teacher to be impressed, DO MORE than watch a youtube video, kid.

[@Idle724]

@travis miller how do you know i don't?

[@danielbojkovski723]

@@TPQ1980 I agree as a leftist, just dont let it impact your view on any other people

[@bekluwe]

TPQ1980 Thank you. Many important German inventors are forgotten like Phillip Reis who invented the first telephone in 1859.

[@qusayjamous3431]

@@TPQ1980 what leftists hate germany?? Karl Marx was a German LOL

[@surfk9836]

"Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind every great women is a great behind".

[@__prometheus__]

Lol

[@littlephoot6931]

Behind every great behind, is a great personal trainer 😂👍

[@mattio79]

... and good god, what a cute woman!

[@jachjoloz1673]

Great posterior, you mean. I see. Lol.

[@joshglover2370]

@@mattio79 Right! Bertha was wayyy to pretty to be named Bertha! 🤤

[@ethanramos4441]

“My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish” Karl Benz

[@audreymuzingo933]

The only thing that bums me out about death is the idea of missing whatever happens next. So the fact that Karl and Bertha got to see cars become a full on thing makes me very happy.

[@LarryHatch]

Bertha Benz was not only a beautiful woman (how many rich men of the time could match her?) but one with marketing brilliance and determination. Very inspirational.

[@greasee.monkey7224]

It is cool to see where it all started. I'm toward the bottom of the automotive food chain, I'm an auto mechanic. This industry continues to thrive and innovate and has supported my kids into adulthood. So I'm thankful for it. Thanks for the history lesson Simon.

[@marcusvachon845]

I have read the story of Benz and his wife, Bertha, before. My favorite part is the fact that they were made for each other. I think that it would make a great movie.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Yeah, nice idea.

[@PJ-dx2qo]

Hear, hear

[@wolfschindler8921]

A great movie has been made about them.

[@MetalTrabant]

@@wolfschindler8921 What's it called?

[@dunkelrot9915]

@@MetalTrabant It's called "Carl & Berta", but it is in German. It really is a great movie, but I don't know if it is available in English.

[@asparceproton1]

As a life long automotive enthusiast, I'm quite pleased to see this on my feed.

[@brett4264]

Berths was hot too! Brains and beauty, the entire package.

[@CuteDwarf11]

I think Karl and Bertha were a really cute couple. I like the way that Bertha saw past his poverty and stood by the man she loved, while Karl didn't think it was odd that a woman like her was interested in engineering. I was helpless with laughter during the narration of her journey, and how the apothecary was aghast at her appearance, topped off by the scare she gave several of the townspeople when she arrived in her vehicle. 🤣🤣🤣 I can imagine what a sight it must have been when she arrived, careening like crazy through the streets in her husband's invention, with everyone agape! 👍👍👍 That would have been fun to see! 🤣👍👍🤣

[@maxxxskulls4928]

that's the hottest Bertha I've ever seen

[@elilangie1552]

wow dude really

[@elilangie1552]

lol

[@BrainsApplied]

*"Unfortunately, only a girl again"* I'm always surprised by how much women were appreciated back in those days...

[@micahmach8732]

Not justifying it but women were kinda a burden back. I mean a dowery esentialy was a prize for taking her off your hands. Men carried the family name. Plus male children were basicly like a retirment fund. Yet we dont need to look to the past to see how women are undervalued. You need only to look to the one child policy in china. This undervaluing has actually shown their value (not in being killed befor birth but rather how it has lead to a shortage of women).

[@joshglover2370]

I'll bet that broke her heart and stuck with her for the rest of her life! 😞 Poor girl!

[@rokuthedog]

@EmperorJuliusCaesar lol except for china

[@rachybaby72]

@@micahmach8732 *I think the killing before birth actually shows the undervaluing.......* _My my,_ the mental gymnastics you had to go through to sidestep *abortion* from your equation is astonishing... The Chinese judge gives you a 6.0..........

[@sandrastreifel6452]

rachybaby72: Forced abortions, like China’s policies, are just as much a violation of human rights as laws prohibiting abortion are.

[@andriesoliviier9529]

I'm going to hell for this, but here goes... Would it be fair to call them a "horsepower couple?". I'll see myself out...

[@Ihridyaahni]

Went to the museum in Stuttgart 👌 it was fascinating! One needs a full day just to explore the whole museum. Lots of interactive exhibits

[@arkangelnorthman]

Beautiful...rich...along came the car guy....the rest is history!!

[@SouthCatBoy99]

I’d really like to see a biographics video on Neil Peart, that’d be amazing

[@bsjeffrey]

i'm pretty sure dave automobile invented the car.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

No, it was Jimmy Carr and they just dropped the second "r".

[@valeniusthekat]

IT WAS LEE IACOCCA!!!! 😂👍

[@mercedes_nuts]

Benz - King of the road for 140 years and counting 💪 I'm proud to own a W210. It's not the fastest, most luxurious, or most bulletproof Benz, but it sure has more than enough of those qualities considering how cheap you can get them. 220hp for $2k isn't bad for my first car.

[@--_--IMP--_--]

This might be my favorite episode yet. Bertha was a truly remarkable woman. Imagine how different the entire history of automobiles might have played out without her unwavering support of, and contributions to the legacy of Karl Benz.

[@jubjub7101]

What an amazing life they had together. Glad both of them lived long to see the fruits of their labor. Too bad Bertha died before the end of WWII, makes me wonder what her political stance was during Germany’s third reich.

[@flukislucas]

Bertha Benz was hot

[@arkangelnorthman]

For sure!!

[@nimeshchokshi1921]

Oh nice, glad to see Karl & Bertha Benz getting a video! Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach should get their own videos down the line. The rights to use the Daimler name was sold to a company in England, and British Daimler set up shop in 1896, thus giving birth to the British automobile industry. There was also Austro-Daimler, a subsidiary of the German company within Austria. Ferdinand Porsche worked for Austro-Daimler, then later Daimler & Daimler-Benz. I believe he left the company in 1928.

[@DinsdalePiranha67]

By the mid 1960's, the British Daimler name was reduced to an upscale trim level on some Jaguar models.

[@TwentyNinerR]

The Daimler-Benz, for a time, merged with Chrysler, which didn't really go well for Mercedes-Benz for as far as I know.

[@alvarogil8954]

The way you summarize and explain with such ease is just fascinating!! Impressive

[@mariagabriela_bia]

Who else asked “how about Mercedes?” during the entire video?

[@Khenfu_Cake]

Can't say I personally did, since I did know about Emil Jellinek, Daimler and Benz history beforehand. But I reckon some people didn't, and they were probably curious about when that name entered the picture, since most people probably know of Mercedes-Benz (perhaps moreso than its parent company Daimler-Benz which I think is just called Daimler nowadays). Added interesting fact: Jellinek used his daughter's name as the name for his race car team competing in the French Riviera races in the 1890's, and he himself went by the alias Monsieur Mercedes. Later on the name carried over to the cars themselves😊

[@Tfin]

Nah, I remember Daimler was before that from the set of Matchbox "Models of Yesteryear" I had as a child

[@jmbpinto73]

Mercedes, Benz, Daimler and Maybach. Names familiar today to any car guy.

[@JackieMReacts]

i was thinking it

[@mohamedbinrahidkhankhaledb4066]

And mostly american think henry ford is the father of the automobile

[@laurawillits176]

I drive a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 300D. It's spoiled me for any other vehicle, elderly as it is. Thanks for the video!

[@DinsdalePiranha67]

I have the car that succeeded yours in my garage - a '02 E320.

[@jeffduncan9140]

I saw one this past week. It appeared to be very well cared for and sounded great. I love the 80's M-B cars.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I think Benz and I would have been good friends if we'd lived in the same time. I too am an engineer (embedded systems) who loves to create things that I can show off, but have no talent for bureaucracy or economics. I just want to show the world what I can do.

[@carlswenson5403]

Bertha Benz, rollin hard on some straight rims too. Of course, that's how its done on the westside ... of Germany

[@MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

In these comments: People thirsting after a dead woman.

[@HoHoMoMoo]

I respect germans because they’re hard working people.

[@joshglover2370]

My biggest wish is to one day have a companion like Bertha Benz! Loyal, loving, supportive, and intelligent! 😍

[@hedgehog1965uk]

...and beautiful. It's OK to say it!

[@dougerrohmer]

So the first road trip, huh? Wonder what she had on the playlist, or was it that newfangled crap music that the teenage sons forced on her?

[@dougerrohmer]

@Carlos Saraiva Maybe they had a band on a trailer towed behind?

[@smokeyjoe7251]

Any danger of a Biographics feature on Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot? The inventor of the first true (purpose-built) automobile in 1770?

[@mikemelow]

I clicked on the video and that ad was for Mercedes Benz!

[@BossPenguin]

Great video! I work for Robert Bosch GmbH near Stuttgart. He'd also be a great option for a biographics video! He was a very philantrophic man and a very keen bussinessman.

[@macartm]

at 01:34 ... Even if that came from the KZbin Audio Library ... that is the same riff used in 'Willie The Pimp' from the album 'Hot Rats' by Frank Zappa ;)

[@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212]

Good ear mate

[@DiggingFrance]

Standing in the porch of the Lido hotel!

[@mbainrot]

6:50 was totally expecting a skillshare promo

[@frankiebella7808]

I told you Simon doctor Ferry Porsche next !!!!!👍🇩🇪

[@Spartanwazhere1]

Bio on George Orwell plz

[@brett4264]

He was "an avid bicycle rider". He probably thought like me (I'm an engineer also): "This is fun but it would be way more fun if I didn't have to f'n pedal!"

[@___David__]

The contenders are Benz, Daimler and Maybach... So, the correct answer to the question "who built the first car" today is "Mercedes"...since, you know, all 3 companies are owned by the same Holding 😅

[@nimeshchokshi1921]

David I like how it all came full circle. Maybach left Daimler, then Maybach became the name of one of Mercedes-Benz’s main competitors, then Mercedes-Benz buying the rights in the 1960s, but waiting like 40 years to bring back the name.

[@MtnTow]

Bertha is hot. Is that where the 'Big Bertha' name for vehicles came in?

[@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704]

Nay, comes from the huge Krupp Canon used by the German artillery during WW1. Named after another Bertha, Krupp's daughter

[@MtnTow]

@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704 Thank you

[@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704]

@@MtnTow sure thing pal

[@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ]

@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704 was that Bertha beautiful or like struck by a cannonball?

[@emckethern]

Right on time to listen while I take my nap! How about doing one on Ida B. Wells for Black History Month? Also, for Women's History Month in March can you focus on women?

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Black history month and women's history month?? Why isn't it just HISTORY, that includes all types of influential people all year round?

[@emckethern]

@@hedgehog1965uk because every week it's always men.🤷‍♀️

[@hedgehog1965uk]

@@emckethern So you are happy with being patronised and fobbed off with a "women's history month", instead of being properly represented throughout the year? Doesn't it provide an excuse for people to largely ignore the achievements of women for 11 months of the year, because "there is a whole month dedicated to women"? I believe this is the reason Morgan Freeman wasn't happy with "black history month". Maybe if you suggest a few women to be covered here. I agree that Ida B. Wells would be an excellent one to start with, and I'm amazed to see that they haven't covered Rosa Parks yet. I just checked and 36 of the 320 Biographics videos are about women (just over 11%), although I think it's not too bad to be underrepresented in a list that includes Nazis, tyrants, cult leaders and serial killers.

[@emckethern]

@@hedgehog1965uk I would be happy if they showed more women and Black people. I wasn't trying to make it about race that's why I said women too but there are plenty of Black people or women that can be covered here on here. Especially Black women!👌👌👌

[@fuckthepolice.9410]

@@emckethern black people especially black women don't draw views which is what a large channel like this aimes for... stupid, I know, but true

[@zoso1up]

Imagine being the person to first see somone driving without a horse and just being absolutely stunned

[@MrOtzelot]

Mühlberg just looks so beautiful, the architecture, just wonderful

[@christopherderrah3294]

I am sure that in the late 1880s selling a car in France would have been better done under a French name rather than a German name.

[@ripsumrall8018]

The influence of the bicycle can't be overstated.

[@Wardner213]

Could you please do a bio on Ip Man? Thank you :)

[@Alvin_Vivian]

Watch the 4 movies starring Donnie Yen! Case closed!

[@alexlief2072]

Didn't know that Mercedes-Benz was the first car production with a brand name.

[@tdnrarogerg]

He was born in the state of Baden (Bah-den), Wurttemberg swallowed Baden after WW2 and we still hate them for this. Throwing the two states together is probably like mixing up North and South Carolina.

[@stephenwright8824]

Agreed. We might have more than a sympathetic attachment to the two Carolinas, though what we're doing with two _Dakotas_ baffles me.

[@byhisstripes2713]

A series on the reformers would be great: John Calvin, Luther, Zwingli etc 😊

[@jimbob9714]

Cue Janis Joplin

[@MrBudgues]

Greetings from Mannheim - home of the first automobile and the first bicycle - the Draisine! :)

[@hollylouise7061]

Could you please do a video on Mary Seacole? She was such an inspiring woman who deserved far more recgonition than she has received

[@louise-yo7kz]

Agreed. Nurse pioneer of Jamaican extract

[@morenofranco9235]

Great, Simon. Now I have a deeper history of the vehicle I drive. Thank you.

[@djsonicc]

Karl: You wanna know how we can make a million dollars with cars? Bertha: How? Karl: We start with $10million Bertha: ... Karl: Bertha: I'm going visit my mom for a few days+

[@Darrell1019]

Mama Bertha makes me think of my paternal grandmother, she too was "clearly intelligent". By the time of her death, she'd left all her grandchildren $1000.00 a piece. She also accomplished much more than that!

[@mammuchan8923]

Bertha is astonishingly beautiful, the face of an angel that kicked ass on the original roadtrip

[@katy4714]

I love the look on her face! "I told him he made something great and proved it!"

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

What a gangsta, pulling up in the hood in germany in the first car ever when everyone around him was riding on horses

[@GerzonChon]

5:20 You could say his name was Nikolaus Autto

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Early years 5:10 - Chapter 2 - The Benz Companies 6:50 - Mid roll ads 8:50 - Chapter 3 - The first car ? 12:05 - Chapter 4 - The trip that changed everything 16:05 - Chapter 5 - Finding success

[@shaunoliverii8961]

Can you PLEASE do a biography of Ferdinand Porsche?!😁😁😁👍

[@bamboosa]

Daimler-Benz produced the amazing engines that powered the most advanced fighter plane in 1939 and the Brits and Americans took notice as they did not want to live in a Nazi regime and were compelled to produce engines like the Rolls Royce Merlin engine and the American Wright engines for warbirds.

[@tlk0216]

those are some big glasses

[@hanzup4117]

Really enjoyed this one. Lots of uploads recently too. You guys are crushing it!

[@deedee4531]

How about the story of the world's oldest firearms manufacturing company . Beretta

[@FeelnLikeIDoEveryDay]

Karl and Bertha Benz, linchpins of the green house effect lol

[@matthewjones8798]

Can you do one on Gary Gygax(sp?) creator of D&D? Anyone?

[@Johnbartheart]

Matthew Jones Yes, please!

[@jve89]

Beautiful to see how important Mercedes Benz founder was for the world! I wonder how influential VW's founder was 🤔😂

[@Abusemtex]

Just to make it clear to our fellow americans. Germany is not just monocrome - we have colours too.

[@stephenwright8824]

I don't doubt that many Americans think those colours are red, white and black. Too many. ☹️

[@dunzek943]

Bertha is like, the best waifu ever

[@Bahamuttiamat]

Dominated the car industry then. Dominates f1 now.

[@StinFriggins]

This show is NEEDED. Lights my mind up every time I watch. One day, I hope that all black and white photos are colorized. Makes the past seem more real and human. Thanks Simon!!

[@jalilsharief1192]

Huge fan of the show may I suggest an episode on Charles Guiteau whom assassinated former president Garfield

[@pauljames6353]

Anything with Simon in it is amazing. Best videos on KZbin.

[@bekluwe]

Karl invented the car. Every vehicle before was not practical and so can not considered a car.

[@TinyBearTim]

You don’t need something to be practical for it to be a car

[@chefast1647]

The way you narrate I feel like you could make any one on earth famous or infamous your tone and accent makes everything you say sound so dramatic In a good way!

[@chrispoleson6118]

Bertha was indeed hot. Their car has three wheels but most of the time he probably had three legs too.

[@stephenwright8824]

@@chrispoleson6118 About as appropriate a response to that comment as chalk and submarines.

[@discussionwithunathi]

Thank you Karl and Bertha Benz

[@registeelix]

Can you do your biography as a one million subscribers special? (Just for the lols)

[@JohnDoe-vn1we]

Get bent troll.

[@registeelix]

@@JohnDoe-vn1we You get bent

[@brett4264]

It's gonna be a good day. Skipped the entire crossout bit with one click.

[@SpiderManpeterxxxparker]

Can you do a biography on Admiral Yi Sun-Sin, the Martial Lord of Loyalty?

[@StraboSE]

This.

[@franciscomm7675]

Extra credits did a series of youtube videos about him

[@JPTVIDEOS4U]

Am so proud of Bertha benz❤❤ she was angel for carl benz

[@fuckthepolice.9410]

00:59 damn she's hot

[@captainmarbles1]

Benz? As in "Mercedes Benz"?

[@jojospice3353]

Exactly

[@altergreenhorn]

Mercedes was a name of Benz business partner daughter.

[@jamesclendon4811]

Chris Parra Ever think of watching the video before posting a comment?

[@JusticeNotServed]

Yet another absolutely outstanding bio!

[@jamespatagueule4599]

I'm sorry but Benz isn't the father of the automobile. He is the father of the car (first automobile with combustion engine). the father of the automobile is probably Joseph Cugnot (fardier, 1769 so a century before Benz). the word "automobile" is french.