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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.
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business · German engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer (1834–1900) · engineer · inventor · industrialist · entrepreneur · also Gottlieb Daimler, Daimler
Born 17 March 1834 · Died 6 March 1900 · Q57098
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-03-06.
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1896· 2 entries
To the Daimler Motor Company
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Daimler (DMG) sued Benz & Cie for violating his 1883 patent on hot tube ignition
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1895· 2 entries
After a cessation of hostilities between Daimler, Maybach, and the DMG board
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The year DMG assembled its 1,000th engine, Maybach returned as General Inspector, receiving 30,000 shares
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1894· 1 entry
At the Hermann Hotel, Maybach together with Daimler and his son Paul designed a third engine called the "Phoenix" and had DMG make it
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1891· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairman of the supervisory board (1891).
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1890· 2 entries
Daimler founded his own engine business, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG)
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Converted their partnership into a stock company Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English – the Daimler Motors Corporation)
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1889· 1 entry
Daimler and Maybach built the Stahlradwagen, their first automobile that did not involve adapting a horse-drawn carriage with their engine, but which was somewhat influenced by bicycle designs
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1887· 1 entry
And Maybach went as their representative to the 1889 Paris Exposition to show their achievements
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1885· 3 entries
Created a carburetor which mixed gasoline with air allowing its use as fuel
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Designed a vertical cylinder version of this engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle which was named the Petroleum Reitwagen (Riding Car) and, in the next yea
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And Karl Benz had developed the first purpose-built automobile using a 2 cycle engine of his own design a few months later
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1884· 1 entry
And a flywheel was included in one of the engines
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1883· 1 entry
Designed a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation applications
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1880· 1 entry
Receiving 112,000 Gold marks in Deutz-AG shares in compensation for the patents of both Daimler and Maybach
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1877· 1 entry
But one of his 25 patents was soon challenged and overturned
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1876· 1 entry
Otto developed a gaseous fuel, compressed charge four-stroke cycle, (also known as the Otto Cycle) engine after 14 years of effort, a system characterized by four piston strokes (intake, compression, power, and exhaust)
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1872· 1 entry
At age 38, Daimler and Maybach moved to work at the world's largest manufacturer of stationary engines at the time, the Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik in Cologne
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1869· 1 entry
Joining Maschinenbau Gesellschaft Karlsruhe in July
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1863· 1 entry
Joined the Bruderhaus Reutlingen, a Christian Socialist toolmaker, as inspector and later executive
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1862· 1 entry
To Beau De Rochas, a French public works engineer
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1861· 1 entry
Resigned from R&S, visiting Paris, then went on to England, working with the country's top engineering firms, becoming knowledgeable with machine tools
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1856· 1 entry
Daimler, then 22, was named foreman
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1853· 1 entry
Daimler, with Steinbeis' assistance, got work at "the factory college", Rollé und Schwilque (R&S) in Grafenstaden, so-called because its manager, Friedrich Messmer, had been an instructor at the University of Karlsruhe
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1852· 2 entries
Ended the training with the trade examination
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Passing the craft test with a pair of engraved double-barreled pistols
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1848· 1 entry
Daimler had trained as a gunsmith under Master Gunsmith Hermann Raithel
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-03-17.
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