Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Carl Benz are among those who have granted their names to the house of The Three-Pointed Star. The name the world knows best, Mercedes, is also an eponym but ...

Gottlieb Daimler’s motorized carriage was the world’s first four-wheeled automobile. It was a conventional carriage into which Daimler and Maybach installed their small high-speed engine.

Gottlieb Daimler and his longtime pal Wilhelm Maybach were lifelong inventors responsible for tons of different combustion engine designs throughout their intertwined career. These men were prolific .

Mercedes-Benz is synonymous with luxury, precision, and automotive excellence,but its roots go far deeper than most people know. This is the incredible true story of how Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz ...

On 18 August 1896, eleven years after the creation of the first gasoline internal combustion motorcycle, Gottlieb Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach introduced the Daimler ...

The motorcycle was born in the late 1800s as a result of some people over in Germany named Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach creating something that we now know as the Reitwagen.

While there are vehicles, along with automotive companies, still going strong that are named after these three men—Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz—each is all long-departed ...

THE death of Dr. Wilhelm Maybach at Stuttgart on Dec. 29 removes the last of the four great German pioneers whose names will ... Gottlieb Daimler, who died on Mar. 6, 1900; Karl Benz, who ...

Motorcycles have come a long way since 1885, when Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach built the first one in Germany. Called the reitwagen, or riding car, its engine had 0.5 horsepower and a top ...

The internal combustion engine went through several iterations before we ended up with what we have today. One of these was the "Silent Knight" sleeve engine.

125th Anniversary of the Automobile: Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler put the world on wheels. By Leigh Dorrington Published: Jan 29, 2011. 125th Anniversary of the Automobile. Open Gallery.