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@aakib1889

4 жыл бұрын

leonid brezhnev biography!

@harveykl2532

4 жыл бұрын

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

@yllihyka987

4 жыл бұрын

@@harveykl2532 : v Gatime shqip

@iii-ei5cv

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent ad btw

@jackclelland3230

3 жыл бұрын

What

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

@MaxRideout

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dindin3655

2 жыл бұрын

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

@briankarczewski8588

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@UnchainedAmerica

4 жыл бұрын

The first "teenager". LOL

@rabbi120348

4 жыл бұрын

"Are we there yet?"

@user-hk3vu4mh4q

3 жыл бұрын

yell

@dingrey

3 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Haha

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!

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.

Dam. Bertha Ringer was beautiful.

@billyt.7306

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@silafuyang8675

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DagarCoH

4 жыл бұрын

@@silafuyang8675 you forgot crafty and intelligent

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Idle724

4 жыл бұрын

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

@danielbojkovski723

4 жыл бұрын

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

@bekluwe

4 жыл бұрын

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

@qusayjamous3431

3 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, nice idea.

@PJ-dx2qo

4 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear

@wolfschindler8921

4 жыл бұрын

A great movie has been made about them.

@MetalTrabant

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolfschindler8921 What's it called?

@dunkelrot9915

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

@__prometheus__

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@littlephoot6931

4 жыл бұрын

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

@mattio79

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jachjoloz1673

4 жыл бұрын

Great posterior, you mean. I see. Lol.

@joshglover2370

4 жыл бұрын

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

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! 🤣👍👍🤣

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

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

The influence of the bicycle can't be overstated.

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

6:50 was totally expecting a skillshare promo

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@TwentyNinerR

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@hedgehog1965uk

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@DinsdalePiranha67

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jeffduncan9140

Жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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

Mühlberg just looks so beautiful, the architecture, just wonderful

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

@micahmach8732

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@rokuthedog

4 жыл бұрын

@EmperorJuliusCaesar lol except for china

@rachybaby72

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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...

i'm pretty sure dave automobile invented the car.

@hedgehog1965uk

4 жыл бұрын

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

@valeniusthekat

4 жыл бұрын

IT WAS LEE IACOCCA!!!! 😂👍

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

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

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!!

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

@StraboSE

4 жыл бұрын

This.

@franciscomm7675

4 жыл бұрын

Extra credits did a series of youtube videos about him

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

Simon, I love that when you have a sponsor you actually show yourself playing the game instead of just doing a short blurb about it.

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

4 жыл бұрын

I thought is was Carls daughters name That was Mercedes.

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.

I am from the area were Carl Benz was from. My Grandfather even grew up in the same neighborhood as the Benz family in Ladenburg. He was a truly great man.

Yet another absolutely outstanding bio!

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!"

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

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

Outstanding Simon and crew!

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

Bertha Benz was hot

@arkangelnorthman

4 жыл бұрын

For sure!!

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

I love the channel and all of the subjects that you cover are great, I have just one small little thing that I want to ask you to please please please do would you line up the framed art that you have in on your wall above the desk the one on right does not line up with the bottom frame, it's killing me!!!

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

@Khenfu_Cake

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jmbpinto73

4 жыл бұрын

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

@JackieMReacts

3 жыл бұрын

i was thinking it

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

VIBRATOR = Used before points driven by a small cam to convert DC into AC. They were two electromagnets with a reed switch / spring metal blade with brass contact, in the center. They vibrate from the switch going back and forth.

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.

that's the hottest Bertha I've ever seen

@elilangie1552

4 жыл бұрын

wow dude really

@elilangie1552

4 жыл бұрын

lol

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

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

Best short videos on the net! Keep it up 👌🏼

@cascorick8253

4 жыл бұрын

Bedford Cf2 yes he's very good, have you ever watched" the history guy"?

I may use some of this information in a story I'll be writing soon. BTW, how about a video about Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer?

Awesome video Simon!

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

You guys should do a video series in the same format on epic military battles.

Thanks for the video

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

Thanks for another great video! I knew nothing, but the name, about this guy

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

@lawrenceoctaviuskeet3212

4 жыл бұрын

Good ear mate

@DiggingFrance

4 жыл бұрын

Standing in the porch of the Lido hotel!

5:20 You could say his name was Nikolaus Autto

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

Great video. I have heard the story of Bertha and her trip. Great woman!

Land mark moment you say? Discovering this channel! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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

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!

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

Very cool vid.. 👍🏻👍🏻

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

@Alvin_Vivian

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the 4 movies starring Donnie Yen! Case closed!

This is how I finish my day, with Simon Whistler.

@hedgehog1965uk

4 жыл бұрын

Are you saying he sends you to sleep? ;)

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

*The original car enthusiast.*

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.

Bio on George Orwell plz

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

Good one guys.

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

@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704

4 жыл бұрын

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

@MtnTow

4 жыл бұрын

@@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704 Thank you

@henry-thepizzaeater-morgan704

4 жыл бұрын

@@MtnTow sure thing pal

@user-po6hn9id1t

4 жыл бұрын

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

Dear Sir Simon. I would love to see you present a work of the Krupp dynasty. I am interested in Franco Prussian war of 1870 where Krupp steel cannon way overmatched France's bronze cannon in distance of shot fired. Very unique situation you might say.. Rkg

Digging the long beard Simon, keep it growing!

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

1:34 willie the pimp bumper music!

i was TOTALLY going to play the game, but they dont have Mac support : (

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

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

I really appreciate how this channel makes sure that women who have roles in things get credited.

@steelerspittsburgh875

4 жыл бұрын

People seeing the car along the first joyride. "Look out everyone it's a woman driver !!! "

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

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Nurse pioneer of Jamaican extract

Good job, geographic suggestions 1 California's Salton sea 2 riverside international speedway (automotive history, sadly gone but not forgotten, see Ken miles and gt40 story, or Dale Earnhardt wins or Dodge Daytona Aero cars. Huge in history, little or no information on it. But if you know about it, you will hear it mentioned almost always.)

@joewall2070

4 жыл бұрын

Seconded

@DinsdalePiranha67

4 жыл бұрын

Parts of RIR still survive as some of the streets of the housing tract built on the site.

Excellent

Good cars, we've owned 8 of them over the last 45 years..thank you Mr. Benz! Fascinating story...

@djzrobzombie2813

3 жыл бұрын

In that time with a Toyota you wouldn't needed 8 cars

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

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.

Am s fascinated with Karl Benz and Henry Ford.