founding the Daimler Motor Factory with Wilhelm Maybach (designer of the Mercedes) in 1890. Gottlieb Daimler dies in 1900. 240 YEARS AGO: RIOT ACT The Stamp Act goes into effect in the American ...

Karl Benz designed and built the Patent Motorwagen around 1885, which was when Gottlieb Daimler and William Maybach created the first gas-powered motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. Both had ...

Wilhelm Maybach, former technical director at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, founded Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau in 1909. The company originally developed and manufactured diesel and gasoline engines ...