Now even Daimler says that it is stopping development of new internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars. The German automaker whose namesake, Gottlieb Daimler, is credited for having ...

Piston engines are the heart of many machines we use today, from cars and airplanes to industrial machinery and motorcycles.

(UK) In 1876, Nicolaus Otto, Gottlieb Daimler, and Wilhelm Maybach developed and patented the four-cycle, compressed-charge engine. (Germany) In 1886, Karl Benz started the first commercial production ...

Internal combustion engines aren’t very efficient. Most modern gasoline engines only convert about 35% of fuel energy into work. Diesels can do over 40%, but need expensive emission systems to stay ...

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.

1887: Gottlieb Daimler's "Benzin motor carriage" is ... to feature Daimler's gasoline-powered, water-cooled internal combustion engine, the prototype of the engine that continues to be the most ...

For hundreds of years of human history, the invention that has defined our ability to travel, explore, and expand our boundaries has been the combustion engine. This hallmark of mechanical ...

ON March 17 the centenary occurs of the birth of Gottlieb Daimler ... of the gas engine, and Daimler's own contribution to the progress of the internal combustion engine is but an illustration ...

Superchargers were invented back in the late 1800s; prolific German inventor Gottlieb Daimler received a patent for supercharging an internal combustion engine in 1885. Today, there are basically ...