Gottlieb Daimler Facts
Gottlieb Daimler Facts
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| Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was born in Schorndorf near Stuttgart and was the son of a baker. |
| By 1847 he had finished his elementary education and his interest in engineering led the then 13 year old Daimler to apprentice to a carbine maker. |
| For his apprenticeship craft test he made a pair of engraved, double-barreled pistols. |
| He decided to study mechanical engineering and entered the School for Advanced Training in the Industrial Arts in Stuttgart. |
| In 1853 he went to work at F.Rolle und Schwilque and in 1856 became a foreman there. |
| Daimler spent two years at Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute studying steam engines. |
| In 1861 he resigned from Rolle and Schwilque and went to Englandto work with the top engineering firms there. |
| From 1863 to 1869 he worked at Bruderhaus Reutingen where he met 15 year old Wilhelm Maybach who would later become his design partner. |
| In 1882 Daimler and Maybach finally started their own company and in 1885 they developed the first commercially practical gasoline engines. |
| In November of 1885 they mounted their engine on a two-wheeled wooden frame creating the first internal combustion engine driven motorcycle. |
| In 1886 they made the world's first motorboat and boat engines would soon become their most popular product. |
| August 10, 1888 a balloon powered by Daimler's engine flew over Seelberg. |
| In 1889 Daimler built the first automobile that was not an adaptation of the horse drawn carriage but was designed from the beginning to be a gasoline powered car. |
| On November 28, 1890 Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft was founded to construct small, high-speed engines for use on land, water and air. |
| These three areas became the impetus for the three pointed star that is the logo of Mercedes today. |
| In 1892 DMG finally sold its first automobile. |
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