On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:53:38 -0800 "kevin kraly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (the garage at our next house WILL be equipped with one), and it will > be heated as well. Sounds like a plan! > If I'm lucky, it MAY just be one of the donuts leaking, Unfortunately, you won't know until you get in there. > but since Carl and Gottlieb aren't happy with my improper star...? It turns out there is some confusion about the spelling of Herr Benz's first name. The Gottlieb-Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation spells it with a "K". http://www.daimler-benz-stiftung.de/home/en/start.html Mercedes-Benz USA spells it with a "K". http://www.mbusa.com/heritage/karl-benz.do The translation of the German page (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz) at http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcarl%2Bbenz%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG clears up the confusion (though it's a transliteration rather than a translation so it's not really good English), ============================================================== Karl or Carl? The way of writing of the Benz first name also today still provides for confusion. Which city their Karl Benz place is, the neighbour municipality their Carl Benz school. The autopioneer provided for the orthographic confusion. In the birth register of Mühlburg it is located under 25 November 1844 as a Karl Friedrich Michael registered. He registered himself 1860 handwritten as a Karl Benz at the polytechnic institute in Karlsruhe. And on his first patent specification of 1880 stands: Karl Benz to Mannheim. End of the nineteenth century came the French way of writing of German names into mode, Karlsruhe was called now for the chice world Carlsruhe, and Karl Benz marked of now on mostly as Carl Benz. The next patent specification of 1882 is issued on Carl Benz in Mannheim. And its enterprise in shop castle firmierte under Carl Benz Sons KG. Both C and the K-parliamentary group among the language scholars supplied thus good reasons for both variants to Benz with; none of the two is correctly wrong. The DaimlerChrysler AG decided for the way of writing with "K" as the historically clearer. Also general national archives in Karlsruhe nevertheless recognize this version due to the entry in the baptismal register on. ============================================================== In addition, there's an article regarding how important his wife, Bertha, was to the operation at http://www.autonews.com/files/euroauto/inductees/benz.htm Craig
