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Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World

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Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World - Adkins, Jan
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In this nonfiction joyride, Bertha Benz and her sons drive across Germany in the world's first automobile. It's 1888 and Bertha Benz's husband, Karl, has invented the prototype Benz motorwagen. But the German government declares the vehicle illegal, and the church calls it the devil's work. Unbeknownst to her husband, Bertha steals away with her two sons and drives nearly one hundred miles to prove just how amazing the motorwagen is. Bertha's mechanical savvy gets the boys to Grandma's house safely, and the remarkable ...

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Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World 2017, Charlesbridge Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781580896962

Hardcover