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Gottlieb Daimler , 1834-1900, German engineer, inventor, and pioneer automobile manufacturer. His improvements in the internal-combustion engine, made in the 1880s, contributed largely to the development of the automobile industry. In 1890 he founded the Daimler Motor Company at Cannstatt, Germany.

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Daimler, Gottlieb (1834–1900) German engineer and automobile manufacturer. In 1883, with Wilhelm Maybach, Daimler developed an internal combustion engine and powered a motorcycle and then his first car (1886). In 1890, he founded the Daimler Motor Company, which made Mercedes cars, and became Daimler-Benz (1926), then Daimler-Chrysler (1998).

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