Gottlieb Daimler Memorial
Gottlieb Daimler converted the garden house behind his villa just outside Stuttgart into a workshop and it was here that the world’s first internal-combustion engine began spinning in 1883. Daimler and his partner, Wilhelm Maybach, worked in such secrecy that a suspicious gardener, convinced his boss was a counterfeiter, summomed the police to the premises. Daimler was soon fitting his engine onto bikes and into coaches and moved his workshop to a nearby factory, where his mechanics perfected the automobiles that were eventually manufactured by Mercedes-Benz, one of the world’s most enduring luxury brands. Daimler’s covert workshop now houses drawings, photographs, and models of an airship and motorboat that he invented.
Gottlieb Daimler converted the garden house behind his villa just outside Stuttgart into a workshop and it was here that the world’s first internal-combustion engine began spinning in 1883. Daimler and his partner, Wilhelm Maybach, worked in such secrecy that a suspicious gardener, convinced his boss was a counterfeiter, summomed the police to the premises. Daimler was soon fitting his engine onto bikes and into coaches and moved his workshop to a nearby factory, where his mechanics perfected the automobiles that were eventually manufactured by Mercedes-Benz, one of the world’s most enduring luxury brands. Daimler’s covert workshop now houses drawings, photographs, and models of an airship and motorboat that he invented.
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