Gottlieb Daimler

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German: [tlip damml]; 17 March 1834-1860), a German engineer, industrial designer, and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal republic of the German Confederation) in what is now Germany. He was the pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.

Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two pioneers whose aim was to develop small, high-speed engines that could be mounted in any sort of locomotion device. They engineered a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge fluid petroleum engine that met Daimler's desire for a high-speed engine that could be throttled, making it suitable for transportation applications in 1883. Daimler's Dream was the engine that drove this unit.

They created a vertical cylinder version of this engine in 1885, which they later fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle named the Petroleum Reitwagen (Riding Car), and a boat in the coming year. Because of its similarity to a large pendulum clock, Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine (Standuhr).

They converted their partnership into a stock firm Daimler Motors Corporation in 1890, transforming it into a stock company Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English—Daimler Motors Corporation). In 1892, the couple purchased their first car. Daimler became sick and took a break from work. On his return to work, he had trouble with the other stockholders, which resulted in his departure in 1893. In 1894, this was reversed. Maybach resigned at the same time as well as returning. Daimler died in 1900, but Wilhelm Maybach left DMG in 1907.

Daimler is often referred to as "the father of the motorcycle."

Early life and education: 1834–1862

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was the son of a baker named Johannes Däumler (Daimler) and his partner Frederika, from Schorndorf, Württemberg. He had completed six years of primary education in Lateinschule and became interested in engineering by the age of 13 (1847).

Daimler had trained as a firearms gunsmith under master Gunsmith Hermann Raithel after finishing secondary school in 1848. He stopped the education with the trade examination in 1852. He graduated in 1852 and passed the craft test with a pair of engraved double-barreled pistols. Daimler decided to pursue mechanical engineering, instead of gunsmithing, and left his hometown the previous year.

Daimler enrolled at Stuttgart's School for Advanced Training in the Industrial Arts, under Ferdinand von Steinbeis' tutelage. Daimler was still studious, with additional Sunday morning classes added to it. Daimler's assistance in 1853 began working at "the factory college" in Grafenstaden, so-called because its boss, Friedrich Messmer, had been an instructor at the University of Karlsruhe. Daimler's results were good, and Daimler, then 22, was named foreman when Rollé und Schwilque started making railway locomotives in 1856.

Daimler decided to stay rather than staying, spending two years at Stuttgart's Polytechnic Institute to sharpen his skills, gained a deeper understanding of steam locomotives, as well as "a deep conviction" steam was bound to be superseded. He designed small, cheap, simple engines for light industrial use, perhaps inspired by the newly developed gas engines of that period.

He resigned from R&S in 1861, after visiting Paris, then moved to England, where he spent time with the country's top engineering companies, becoming fluent with machine tools. He lived in England from autumn 1861 to summer 1863, then known as "the motherland of technology" at Beyer, Peacock & Company, Manchester. Beyer was from Saxony. While in London, he attended the 1862 International Exhibition, where one of the exhibits was a steam carriage. These carriages did not appear to be inspired by his desire to produce machine tools and woodworking machinery, but not necessarily inspired him.

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Career through 1882

Daimler went to work for Maschinenfabrik Daniel Straub, Geislingen an der Steige, where he designed tools, mills, and turbines. In 1863, he joined the Bruderhaus Reutlingen, a Christian Socialist toolmaker, as inspector and later executive. While there, he met Wilhelm Maybach, then a 15-year-old orphan.: 482  Thanks to Daimler's organizational skills, the factory managed to show a profit, but he quit in frustration in 1869, joining Maschinenbau Gesellschaft Karlsruhe in July.: 482

When in 1872 N.A. Otto and Cie reorganized as Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz, management picked Daimler as factory manager, bypassing even Otto, and Daimler joined the company in August, bringing in Maybach as chief designer.: 482  While Daimler managed to improve production, the weakness in Otto's vertical piston design, coupled to Daimler's stubborn insistence on atmospheric engines, led the company to an impasse.: 482  Neither Otto nor Daimler would give way, and when Daimler was offered the choice of founding a Deutz branch in Saint Petersburg or resigning, he resigned to set up shop in Cannstatt (financed by savings and shares in Deutz),: 482–483  where he was shortly joined by Maybach.: 482

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