CHAPTER1 Road Trip Timeline P 30 HH CHAPTER 2 The Right Time CHAPTER 3 The Birth of an Industry CHAPTER Car Culture 4 The CHAPTER 5 From Cities to Suburbs CHAPTER 6 The Age of Chrome 40 T 64 P CHAPTER7 The Past Catches Up 76 S CHAPTER8 The Road Ahead 88 ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 GLOSSARY 102 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 O SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
CHAPTER 1 ROAD TRIP ne evening in 1878 Karl Benz and his wife Bertha decided to try out the engine Karl had been building He'd had varying degrees of success Sometimes the engine worked Much of the time it didn't This would be one of the good times Karl recalled later My heart was pounding I turned the crank The engine started to go put put put and the music of the future sounded with regular rhythm We both listened to it run for a full hour Over the next few years the German inventor perfected his engine and built a body to go around it While there had been other attempts at motorized vehicles over the years they were really the
Dr Inventor Karl Benz left and his assistant Josef Brecht drive around in the 1885 E Benz
