biography
pronunciation:
[maybakh]
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| lived:
| (1846–1929)
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| biography:
| Inventor and car manufacturer, born in Heilbronn, SWC Germany. He joined Gottlieb Daimler in 1869 as a draughtsman, and became his partner in 1882 when he established a factory near Stuttgart. He was responsible for an innovation that was crucial to the development of high-speed petrol engines suitable for motor cars, the float-feed carburettor (1893), as well as improvements in timing, gearing, and steering. He left Daimler in 1907 and set up his own works at Friedrichshafen (1909), where he made engines for Zeppelin airships, and (1922–39) luxury Maybach cars. |
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