Will the First Hydrogen Highway Road Signs Be in German? Japanese? Or Merican?

摘要

The first automotive refueling-or at least the first credited on a trip-is generally accepted to be Bertha Benz's stop at the Stadt-Apotheke in Wiesloch, Germany. This is not my main topic here, but worth a retelling nonetheless. It was early August 1888, and Bertha just felt like a drive. So she gathered up her two teenage sons and set off in-or rather, on-husband Karl's three-wheel. Patent Motorwagen No.3. The daylong journey, done without her husband's knowledge and certainly not without adventure, was from their home in Mannheim to her mother's place in Pforzheim, some 64 miles away.