WOH-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Motor Vehicle Theft, Wright Brothers, Karl Benz
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Few advantages to the internal combustion engine over the steam engine. Runs o of oil (while the steam engine ran o of coal) Liquid fuel - you can pump it into the engine, much easier than shoveling coal into the steam engine. It was possible for the rst time to mount the engine in smaller vehicles. It also made possible the dream of human ight. Worked on designs in which you could take the internal combustion engine and mount it into a smaller vehicle. Came from a pretty wealthy family, but she couldn"t invest in a company herself, so she partnered up and married karl so that they could invest in a company. The public felt that the automobile was a frivolous invention - so. Bertha took the prototype out on the rst road trip. First grand theft auto, for she didn"t tell her husband who owned it, haha.
