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Model:1885 Daimler Single Track Vehicle#102003
Make:Benz
Price:$98.9
Scale:1:18
Length:27cm
Wide:7cm
Height:15cm
Weight:0.4kg
Material: Tinplate
Color: Saffron yellow Additional Details In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler (together with his design partner Wilhelm Maybach) took Nicolaus Otto\'s internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine. Daimler\'s connection to Otto was a direct one; Daimler worked as technical director of Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik, which Nikolaus Otto co-owned in 1872. There is some controversy as to who built the first motorcycle Otto or Daimler. The 1885 Daimler - Maybach engine was small, lightweight, fast, used a gasoline-injected carburetor, and had a vertical cylinder. The size, speed, and efficiency of the engine allowed for a revolution in car design.
Associated Story Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (March 17, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg) what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. They patented in 1885 a precursor of the modern petrol engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, considered the first motorcycle and, in the next year, to a stagecoach, and a boat. They are renowned as the inventors of this Grandfather Clock engine. Later, in 1890, they founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG). They sold their first automobile in 1892. Daimler fell ill taking a break from the company and upon his return experienced difficulty with the other stock holders that led to his resignation in 1893 that was reversed in 1894. Soon Maybach resigned also and he returned at the same time as Daimler. In 1900 Daimler died and Maybach quit DMG in 1907. In 1924, the DMG management signed a long term co-operation agreement with Karl Benz\'s Benz & Cie., and in 1926 the two companies merged to become Daimler-Benz AG, which is now part of DaimlerChrysler.
Price: $98.90
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