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Wilhelm Maybach (born February 9, 1846, in Heilbronn ; died December 29, 1929, in Stuttgart ) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. In the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors". From the late 19th century, Wilhelm Maybach together with Gottlieb Daimler developed light high-speed internal combustion engines suitable for land, water and air use and these were fitted to the world's first motorcycle and motorboat, and shortly after Daimler's death, to the Mercedes car of 1900. Maybach became technical director of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft , also known as Daimler Motor Company or DMG but did not get on with its chairmen. Maybach left it in 1909 to found the Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH together with his son Karl, manufacturing Zeppelin engines. After the Versailles Treaty , they produced large luxury vehicles until the 1940s. Daimler-Benz retained rights to the trademark, reviving it as a luxury make in 2002. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER BEGINNINGS (1846 TO 1869) Wilhem Maybach was the son of a carpenter and his wife ''Luise'' from the town of Heilbronn . He had five sisters. When he was 8 years old the family moved from Loewenstein near Heilbronn to Stuttgart . His mother died in 1856 and his father in 1859. After his relatives published an announcement in a newspaper, the Stuttgarter Anzeiger , a philanthropic institution or Bruderhaus , at Reutlingen , took in Maybach as a student. Its founder/director, Gustav Werner , discovered his technical inclination and personally helped to stimulate his career by sending him to the school's engineering workshop. At 15 (1861), Maybach was heading for a career in Industrial Design and took extra classes in physics and mathematics at Reutlingen's public high-school. By the time he was 19 years old, he was a qualified designer, working on stationary engines and coming the attention of his workshop manager Gottlieb Daimler. Daimler was a ''workaholic'' industrial designer then 29 years old and until his death in 1900 he adopted Maybach as his main assistant. DAIMLER AND OTTO'S FOUR-STROKE ENGINE (1869 TO 1880) In 1869, Maybach then 23 years old, followed Daimler to Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe AG in Karlsruhe , a manufacturer of heavy locomotives. Daimler was on the Executive Committee but they spent long nights discussing new designs for engines, pumps, lumber machinery and metalworking. In 1872, Daimler moved to Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik , in Cologne , then the world's largest manufacturer of stationary gas engines. Nikolaus Otto , its half owner, and Daimler together focused on engine development with Maybach joining them as Chief Designer. In 1876, Nikolaus Otto patented the Four-stroke Cycle engine, a gas internal combustion engine with intake, compression, power and exhaust strokes. Later Otto's patent on this engine was challenged and overturned. Also in 1876, Maybach was sent to show ''Deutz'' 's engines at the Philadelphia's World Fair(USA) . On returning to Cologne in 1877 at the age of 31 years, he concentrated on improving the Four-Stroke design to get it ready for its impending commercial launch. In 1878, Maybach (32) married Bertha Wilhelmine Habermaas a friend of Daimler's wife, Emma Kunz . Her family were landowners in Maulbronner and also ran a post-office. On July 6 1879 Karl Maybach was born , the first of their three sons. Gottlieb Daimler and Nikolaus Otto had serious disagreements which resulted in 1880 with Daimler leaving Deutz-AG. Daimler received 112.000 gold marks in Deutz-AG shares as compensation for patents granted to him and Maybach. Maybach shortly after also left and followed his friend to found a new company in Cannstatt . DAIMLER MOTORS: FAST AND SMALL ENGINES (1882) In 1882, Maybach (36 years) moved to Southern Germany, to the upmarket suburb of Taubenheimstrasse in Cannstatt, Stuttgart where Daimler had purchased a house with 75,000 Gold marks from his Deutz compensation. In its garden they added a brick extension to the roomy glass-fronted summerhouse which became their workshop. Their activities altered the neighbours who suspected they were engaged in counterfeiting and in their absence the police raided the property using the gardener's key but found only engines. Daimler and Maybach together founded the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft , Daimler Motor Company, DMG for short, which was dedicated to the construction of small high speed internal combustion engines for land, water of air transport use with Maybach as Chief Designer. After spending long hours debating which fuel was best to use in Otto's Four-Stroke engine, which had normally used town gas as a fuel, they turned to Petroleum which until then had been used mainly as a cleaner and sold in pharmacies. In 1884, Maybach's second son, Adolf was born. THE ''GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK'' ENGINE (1885) By the end of 1885, Maybach and Daimler developed the first of their engines which is regarded as a precursor to all modern Petrol Engines It featured:
In 1885, they also created the first Carburetor allowing evaporated Gasoline to mix with air to allow its efficient use as fuel . It was used that year on a larger but still compact version of the engine, now with a vertical cylinder, that featured:
Daimler baptized it the Grandfather Clock (Standuhr) because of its resemblance to an old pendulum clock. In November 1885, Daimler installed a smaller version into a wooden bicycle, creating the first motorcycle, (patent ''36-423'' - Vehicle with gas or petroleum engine) and Maybach drove it 3 kilometers from Cannstatt to Untertuerkheim , reaching 7.5 Mph (12 km/h). In March 8, 1886, the inventors took a Stagecoach built by Wilhelm Wimpff & Sohn secretly inside the house, telling the neighbours that it was a birthday gift for Mrs. Daimler. But, in fact, Maybach supervised the installation into it of an enlarged 1.5 hp Grandfather Clock engine and belt drive to the wheels. It became known as the ''Reitwagen'' and reached 10 mph (15 km/h) when tested on the road to Untertuerkheim. Enthusiastically, Maybach and Daimler went on to prove the engine in many other ways including:
By 1887, they were licencing their first patents abroad and Maybach represented the company at the great ''Paris' World Design Exhibition '' (1886 to 1889). |
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