42 Facts About Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf, in what is Germany.

Gottlieb Daimler was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.

Gottlieb Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine because of its resemblance to a large pendulum clock.

Gottlieb Daimler fell ill and took a break from the business.

Gottlieb Daimler died in 1900 and Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was the son of a baker named Johannes Daumler and his wife Frederika, from the town of Schorndorf near Stuttgart, Wurttemberg.

Gottlieb Daimler graduated in 1852, passing the craft test with a pair of engraved double-barreled pistols.

Gottlieb Daimler enrolled at Stuttgart's School for Advanced Training in the Industrial Arts, under the tutelage of Ferdinand von Steinbeis.

Gottlieb Daimler performed well, and when Rolle und Schwilque began making railway locomotives in 1856, Gottlieb Daimler, then 22, was named foreman.

Gottlieb Daimler conceived small, cheap, simple engines for light industrial use, possibly inspired by the newly developed gas engines of that era.

Gottlieb Daimler went to work for Maschinenfabrik Daniel Straub, Geislingen an der Steige, where he designed tools, mills, and turbines.

Gottlieb Daimler, who wanted to make his own engine, feared Otto's patent would prevent it.

Gottlieb Daimler hired an attorney who found that a prior art patent for a four stroke engine had been issued in Paris in 1862 to Beau De Rochas, a French public works engineer.

Gottlieb Daimler wanted to build small engines that could be applied to transportation but Otto had no interest in this.

Gottlieb Daimler was fired in 1880, receiving 112,000 Gold marks in Deutz-AG shares in compensation for the patents of both Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach.

Gottlieb Daimler had three engines built to this design early in 1884, and a flywheel was included in one of the engines.

Gottlieb Daimler relied on hot tube ignition, until 1897, when he adopted the electrical ignition designed by Bosch.

In November 1885, Gottlieb Daimler installed a smaller version of this engine in a wooden two wheeler frame with two outrigger wheels, creating the first internal combustion motorcycle.

Independently of each other, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler each produced an automobile in 1886, both in Germany, about 60 miles apart.

Gottlieb Daimler was granted a patent for his motorwagen on 29 January 1886.

Gottlieb Daimler's engine was installed by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen and drove the rear wheels through a dual-ratio belt drive.

On 8 March 1886, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach secretly brought an American Model coach made by Wilhelm Wimpff and Sohn into the house, telling the neighbors it was a birthday gift for Mrs Gottlieb Daimler.

Engine sales increased, mostly for use in boats, and in June 1887, Gottlieb Daimler bought another property at Seelberg hill, Cannstatt.

From 1882 until 1890, Gottlieb Daimler had resisted making his company into an incorporation or stock company.

Gottlieb Daimler had seen what happened to too many engineers who had pioneered a capital invention as he had.

Gottlieb Daimler continued his design work as a freelance in Cannstatt from his own house, with Daimler's support, moving to the closed Hermann Hotel in the autumn of 1892.

Gottlieb Daimler used its ballroom and winter garden as workshops, employing twelve workers and five apprentices.

In 1890 Gottlieb Daimler founded his own engine business, Gottlieb Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft.

Gottlieb Daimler's doctor prescribed a trip to Florence, where he met Lina Hartmann, a widow 22 years his junior who was the owner of the hotel where he was staying.

Gottlieb Daimler sold all his shares and patents and resigned from the company.

Gottlieb Daimler attempted to buy 102 extra shares to get a majority holding, but was forced out of his post as technical director.

The other directors threatened to declare bankruptcy if Gottlieb Daimler didn't sell them all his shares and all his personal patent rights from the previous thirty years.

Gottlieb Daimler accepted the offer, receiving 66,666 Gold Marks, and resigned in 1893.

Gottlieb Daimler received 200,000 goldmarks in shares, plus a 100,000 bonus.

Gottlieb Daimler died in 1900, and in 1907 Maybach resigned from DMG.

Gottlieb Daimler had developed the first liquid petroleum vehicle in 1885 and Karl Benz had developed the first purpose-built automobile using a 2 cycle engine of his own design a few months later.

Gottlieb Daimler never met Karl Benz during the period of invention.

Gottlieb Daimler did not meet Karl Benz while they were in court in Mannheim.

Years after Gottlieb Daimler died, the two companies did cooperate in many ways.

Gottlieb Daimler was accepted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1978.

Between 1993 and July 2008 Gottlieb Daimler had a stadium named after him in Stuttgart, Germany.

Gottlieb Daimler's motto was Das Beste oder nichts.