Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler

(March 17, 1834 March 6, 1900)

Schorndorf, BadenWrttemberg , Germany

Johannes Daimler (baker)

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Latin School (Lateinschule)

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Became interested in Engineering

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apprenticeship with a carbine maker

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

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decided to take up mechanical engineering, abandoning gunsmithing, and left his

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Signing up at Stuttgart's School for Advanced Training in the Industrial Arts, under the tutelage of Ferdinand Steinbeis.

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Daimler was studious, even taking extra Sunday morning classes.

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In 1853, Daimler, with Steinbeis' assistance, got work at "the factory colege"

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Daimler performed well, and when Roll und Schwilque began making railway locomotives in 1856, Daimler, was named

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Instead of staying, took two years at Stuttgart Polytechnical Institute to hone his skills, gaining in-depth grasp of steam locomotives, as well as "a profound conviction" steam was destined to be superseded.

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In 1861, visit Paris, then went on to England, working with the country's top engineering firms, becoming knowledgeable with

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In 1863, he joined the Bruderhaus Reutlingen, a Christian Socialist toolmaker, as inspector and later executive.

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Thanks to Daimler's organizational skills, the factory managed to show a profit, but he quit in frustration in 1869, joining Maschinenbau Gesellschaft

In 1872 Otto und Langen reorganized as

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, management picked Daimler as factory manager, bypassing even Otto, and Daimler joined the company in August, taking Maybach with him as chief designer.

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He resigned to set up shop in Canstatt (financed by savings and shares in Deutz), where he was shortly joined by Maybach.

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In 1885 they designed a precursor of the modern petrol (gasoline) engine which they subsequently fitted to a twowheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle and, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat.

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The Reitwagen (riding car), the world's first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)

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Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English Daimler Motors

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They sold their first automobile in 1892. (1892 Daimler Schroedter Wagen)

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March 6, 1900

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel

(March 18, 1858 September 29, 1913)

Paris, le-deFrance,

Theodor Diesel (leather goods manufacturer) and his wife

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Franco-Prussian War

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Diesel's mother sent Rudolf to Augsburg to live with his aunt and uncle Barnickel, to become fluent in German and to visit the Knigliche Kreis-Gewerbsschule (Royal County Trade School), where his uncle

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wrote a letter to his parents stating that he wanted to become an engineer.

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After finishing basic education at the top of his class in 1873, he enrolled at the newlyfounded Industrial School of

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Two years later, he received a merit scholarship from the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich, which he accepted against the wishes of his parents, who would rather have seen

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Diesel was graduated in January 1880 with highest academic honours and returned to Paris, where he assisted his former Munich professor, Carl von Linde, with the design and construction of a modern refrigeration and ice plant. Diesel became the director of the plant

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In 1883, Diesel married Martha Flasche, and continued to work for Linde, gaining numerous patents in both Germany and France.

In early 1890, Diesel moved to Berlin with his wife and children, Rudolf Jr, Heddy, and Eugen, to assume management of Linde's corporate research and development department and to join several other corporate

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February 23, 1892, Rudolf Diesel obtained a patent (RP 67207) titled "Arbeitsverfahren und Ausfhrungsart fr Verbrennungsmasch in-en".

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August 10, 1893, Diesel built his first working prototype in Augsburg.

The Diesel engine has the benefit of running more fuel-efficiently than gasoline engines due to much higher compression ratios and longer duration of combustion, which means the temperature rises more slowly, allowing more heat to be converted to mechanical work.

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September 29, 1913

There are various theories to explain Diesel's death. His biographers, present a case for suicide, and clearly consider it most likely. Conspiracy theories suggest that various people's business or military interests may have provided motives for homicide, however. Evidence is limited for all explanations.