German engineer and industrial designer who, with his chief engineer Wilhelm Maybach, developed one of the first high-speed petrol engines and built some of the earliest motorized vehicles in the 1880s. The company he founded merged in 1926 with Karl Benz's to form Daimler-Benz. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Independently pioneered a high-speed IC engine for road transport, 1880s
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He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.
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Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German:
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He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.
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A few months later, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft hired Porsche to serve as Technical Director in Stuttgart, Germany, which was already a major center for the German automotive industry.
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