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Gottlieb Daimler

1834 - 1900

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German: [ˈɡɔtliːp ˈdaɪmlɐ]; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a 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 inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottlieb Daimler is the 2nd most popular engineer, the 113th most popular biography from Germany (down from 88th in 2019) and the most popular German Engineer.

Gottlieb Daimler is most famous for inventing the first gasoline-powered car.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 2 out of 389. Before him are Gustave Eiffel. After him are Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexei Kosygin, and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.

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Among people born in 1834, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 3. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, and Edgar Degas. After him are Ernst Haeckel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, and Carl Bloch. Among people deceased in 1900, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, and Oscar Wilde. After him are Wilhelm Steinitz, Max Müller, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John Sherman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 113 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Schumacher (1969), Pope Damasus II (1000), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), William Herschel (1738), and Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893). After him are William the Silent (1533), Ernst Haeckel (1834), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Albert Speer (1905), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), and Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 1. After him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Fritz Todt (1891), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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