1883

  • 15 August 1883
  • The Kurtz bell foundry in Stuttgart supplies Gottlieb Daimler with cast-iron components for his first internal combustion engine with horizontal cylinder. A second, bigger specimen follows in November. Daimler's experimental engine with hot-tube ignition, initially gas-driven, goes into testing and becomes the basis for the first high-speed petrol engine.
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  • 1 October 1883
  • Together with businessman Max Kaspar Rose and commercial agent Friedrich Wilhelm Esslinger, Carl Benz sets up "Benz & Co., Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik Mannheim" as a general commercial partnership.
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  • 16 December 1883
  • Gottlieb Daimler takes out patents to protect first the "gas engine with hot tube ignition" and, a week later, the "regulation of engine speed by exhaust valve control". The two patents, registered on 4 and 27 August respectively under German patent nos. DRP 28 022 and DRP 28 243, provide the basis for the world’s first high-speed combustion engine.
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