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Bertha Benz


The first long-distance journey with an automobile was done by a woman in August 1888 without telling her husband.

She had to buy gas at pharmacies and constantly refill cooling water from streams or ditches.

At times she had to clean the blocked fuel line using a hat pin or insulating the worn-through ignition wire with the help of a garter.

Also, she invented brake lining on the journey.

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