The cyclist is a tall young girl with good features. She jumped up quickly, patted the dust on her clothes and scolded, "Uncle, why don't you watch the road?"
Carl quickly helped her lift her bike and apologized: "I'm very sorry, teacher, I was lost in reading."
The girl gave Carl a blank look and picked up the book he had dropped: "The power of fire, isn't this Mr. Cano's work?"
Carl looked surprised: "Hey? Do you know sadi carnot? "
"Of course, Mr. Cano first proposed the connection between heat energy and power." The girl replied.
Karl benz was even more surprised: "I haven't met a girl who is interested in natural science."
The girl smiled contemptuously: "I am not an ignorant lady!" " My name is Beretta. Who are you? "
"Well, nice to meet you. I am karl benz. "
"I'm honored. I'm unlucky." Say and Bei Leita sloped a smile.
Karl benz, 25, looks a little anxious (picture from the Internet).
Bei Leita Ringer, 18 years old (image from the Internet)
Since then, Beretta has become a frequent visitor to karl benz's studio. This unusual girl never cares about the roar of machines, splashing oil and smoking fires in the workshop. In fact, Beretta, although cheerful and yearning for freedom, was born in the Ringer family of a famous German family, and was a noble and lovely girl. At that time, women's education was not advocated, but because of Beretta's persistence and the enlightenment of her parents, she not only entered school, but also had a lot of experience in natural science. Bei Leita likes cycling and traveling, and is interested in all kinds of novel things. She never mind the strange eyes of the world, and believes that nothing is impossible as long as she sticks to her ideals and puts them into action.
When Beretta Ringer met karl benz, a mechanical factory designer who shared her hobbies, the two unrestrained young people hit it off. From morning till night, they spend their time in karl benz's workshop, discussing the endless stream of new scientific knowledge in the world and designing and creating all kinds of strange mechanical inventions.
"You just like strange things." Carl put down his tools and said to Bei Leita.
Bei Leita reached out and gently wiped the oil on Carl's cheek. "You are also a strange person."
Carl's throat tightened and his heart was pounding.
"So I like you." Bei Leita kissed Carl gently on the mouth, blushed, jumped on the bike and ran away.
For an instant, karl benz felt that the workshop full of steel machinery seemed to glow with gorgeous spring, and the suffocating fireworks seemed to turn into the fragrance of roses.
It doesn't matter who invented the internal combustion engine. I wonder who invented love. Karl benz fell in love.
Although young Carl is just an engineer from a poor family, and Bei Leita is a noble family, they are not the right family, but Bei Leita is infected by Carl's ideal and deeply loves this poor diaosi who shares his common interests. Finally, Bei Leita persuaded her family to marry karl benz.
Bei Leita after marriage (picture from the Internet)
"I want to see all over the world, but I can only go to the forest in the suburbs by bike at most."
"I want to build you a car that can take you to the end of the world."
Karl benz kept his promise. To build a car that can run without horses, you need an engine first. Of course, this can't be an outdated steam engine, so he devoted himself to the research and development of internal combustion engines. Karl benz obtained the production license for producing Otto four-stroke gas engine. After a year of design and trial production, the structure of the engine was optimized and the danger of frequent explosion was improved. The first single-cylinder gas engine was manufactured in 1879. However, the invention of this leading era has not been favored by investors, and the subsequent development is unsustainable. At the critical moment, Bei Leita sold her jewelry and dowry and gave her husband the most important support. Karl benz later recalled: "In those troubled times, there was only one person who was always by my side, and that was my wife. She used her courage to re-support the sails of my life. "
Karl benz, who had already cheered up, began to study how to install an engine on a tricycle. However, it is impractical to load a gas engine because it must be equipped with a huge gas tank. Karl benz wanted to break his head for it. Until one day, he occasionally saw someone's clothes were dirty and wanted to wash them off with gasoline. After the gasoline evaporated, the flame was accidentally ignited, causing deflagration. Despite the unexpected troubles, Karl Ben Ci was greatly inspired: oil and natural gas are so powerful that replacing natural gas with gasoline can reduce the volume and solve the problem perfectly.
After several years of around-the-clock work, karl benz perfected the design scheme again and again, and got the financial support from the royal photographer Emile Biller and others, improved the Otto four-stroke engine, and finally successfully trial-produced a single-cylinder gasoline engine and manufactured the world's first three-wheeled car with a single-cylinder engine, "Mercedes-Benz 1". 1October 29th,1886,65438+karl benz applied for a patent for automobile invention from the Patent Office of the German Empire for the tricycle he successfully manufactured on September 5th. This day became the birth day of automobile, and Ben Ci was known as "the father of modern automobile". This is because all kinds of vehicles driven by steam engines are excluded from the accepted definition of automobiles, and Ben Ci was the first person to successfully commercialize gasoline engines.
Karl Ben Ci obtained the patent certificate of Mercedes-Benz 1 (image from the Internet).
1 On July 3, 886, Mercedes-Benz1conducted its first public test on the streets of Mannheim. On the road for the first time, the car traveled at the speed of 15 km/h1km165438+10. On February 2, the German Patent Office officially approved Karl Ben Ci's automobile patent. The patent certificate number is 37435, which belongs to air and gas power machinery, and the patent name is "gas engine automobile". ? Karl benz's tricycle can seat two people. It is equipped with solid rubber tires, with a small wheel in front and two big wheels in the back. The engine is placed on the frame of the rear wheel, the driver sits in the middle and controls the direction by a joystick. First, the so-called rack-and-pinion steering gear was adopted, and the rear axle was driven by gears and chains, and was equipped with a quite advanced differential. The engine is a single-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine made in Ben Ci, with a displacement of 0.93 liter and a power of about 0.8 HP. The battery is ignited by a coil and equipped with a radiator. The vehicle weighs 254 kg and has a top speed of 16 km. However, the car did not reverse. Now this car is treasured in the Mercedes-Benz Automobile Museum in Stuttgart.
Mercedes-benz 1 replica
However, the first car made in karl benz did not immediately bring him honor and applause, but was met with overwhelming ridicule. Due to the immature technology, Ben Ci's cars always break down for various reasons and are ridiculed as "smelly monsters". Karl benz, devastated, didn't even dare to drive to the streets for fear of becoming the laughingstock of the world, so the world's first car lay in the warehouse and fell to dust.
"The process of invention is a thousand times better than the result of invention." Carl felt depressed.
"Carl, you have done what no one in the world has done, and you don't care about the eyes of those passers-by." Bei Leita comforted Carl.
Perhaps only Beretta was convinced of karl benz's invention, and she decided to support her lover with actions and drive Carl's own car for an unprecedented trip. 1888 One morning in August, Carl was still sleeping. Bei Leita got up quietly and left a note for Carl: "The holiday has begun. Let's go and see grandma. " Then wake up two children. In order not to wake Carl, mother and son pushed Carl's latest work "Mercedes-Benz 3" far enough away from the laboratory before they started. Bei Leita and his son set out from Mannheim and went to Pforzheim, more than 0/00 kilometers away from/kloc-to visit their grandmothers. At that time, no car in the world had traveled such a long distance.
Simulation map showing Bei Leita's long-distance driving trip (picture from the network)
Mother and son walked forward against the rising sun, and the east gradually turned white. People who got up early on both sides of the road heard the strange mechanical roar far away, and looked out from the window probe, dumbfounded at the flying "monster". The village women working in the farmland saw this strange sight and even knelt down to pray to God. However, the good times did not last long. When passing through the town of Westlock, the car ran out of fuel. At that time, there was no gas station in the world, but for the clever Beretta, it was not difficult. Knowing that the drugstore sells light gasoline, she knocked on the drugstore in town, but no one opened the door yet.
Bei Leita was looking around anxiously when suddenly a little girl ran up to her.
"Excuse me, are you a witch?" The girl asked curiously.
"Of course not, little girl."
"But you can do magic."
Bei Leita smiled. She lowered her head and said to the little girl, "This is a magic car that my prince made for me. I need gasoline now to awaken its magic. Do you know where the pharmacist is? "
The little girl reached a finger. "He's in the beer hall."
Bei Leita thanked the little girl and found the pharmacist in the beer hall according to the direction she pointed.
"I want 10 liter of light gasoline."
The pharmacist eyed Bei Leita, who was travel-stained. "Madam, don't blame me for talkative. Light gasoline won't wash the oil off your skirt. You'd better buy a new one. "
"I didn't buy gasoline for this, but for my car."
"God, you want to poison your horse?"
Bei Leita smiled angrily: "Do you have 10 liter of light gasoline?"
So Bei Leita bought light gasoline and restarted the car. But the trouble is not over yet. After another 70 kilometers, it was stopped by a steep slope. After all, the power of Mercedes-Benz 3 was weak, so Bei Leita had to let her youngest son take the helm. She and her eldest son pushed behind and finally pushed the car over the steep slope. Subsequently, a blacksmith in Salem, bruch, helped her to repair the chain, and she was released on bail to replace the brake pads. Then, the engine oil circuit was blocked, and Bei Leita had a brainwave and dredged it with the hairpin on her hat; The ignition wire was short-circuited, and Bei Leita solved the problem by using garters as insulation pads. Along the way, Bei Leita saved the day with his rich scientific knowledge and intelligence.
The Bei Leita drugstore that buys gasoline is now called the world's number one gas station (picture from the Internet).
At sunset in the Western Hills, the mother and son went through hardships and finally arrived in Pforzheim, with a journey of 106 km. The child's grandmother was surprised and caused a sensation in the town. This is a historic move. At that time, no car in the world had traveled such a long distance. Before that, all car trips were short-distance tests, and Bei Leita Ben Ci was recognized as the first car driver in the world. Yes, this is the female driver!
Excited Bei Leita immediately sent a telegram to Carl: "The car has withstood the test, please apply for the Munich Expo as soon as possible!" Karl benz couldn't believe his eyes when he received the telegram. He hurried through the formalities of the exhibition. At the Munich Industrial Fair, karl benz's car finally shone brilliantly, and his career has been flourishing ever since. As the most important means of transportation in human history, the automobile officially entered the historical stage and began to emerge. Mercedes-Benz is still the leader in the automobile industry.
"Carl, you said you would build me a car that can drive to the end of the world, and you have fulfilled your promise."
"Bei Leita, it is your courage that has created a miracle that belongs to both of us!"
The long journey of love has finally achieved a brilliant automobile era.
PS: This article is a historical story, the basic plot conforms to historical facts, and some dialogues are fiction.
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