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3 unusual facts about Gottlieb Daimler


Albanian Air Force

Military aviation started in Albania in 1914, when the Albanian government ordered three Lohner Daimler aircraft from Austria to form the Albanian Air Corps.

John William Lambert

Lambert heard of a means of vaporizing gasoline by Gottlieb Daimler of Germany.

Motorboat

The first boat powered by a petrol engine was tested on the Neckar river by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1886, when they tested their new "longcase clock" engine.


USA Daimler

When Gottlieb Daimler visited New York as a member of a male voice choir he chanced to meet William Steinway and as a result Steinway founded Daimler Motor Company in Long Island New York.


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