El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23
6OTTLIEB DAIMLER
Biography Of the Inventor Who En-
doWed the World With Horse
less CarrlaueS

less Carriages.
Herald.
The death of Herr Gottlieb Daimler
the inventor of the Daimler motor, a,
ted by all who are interested in auto
mobiles-and who is not interested in
them?-not only because he was uni
versally esteemed, but because he may
be fairly described as the "fathern OF
the horseless carriage.
The honor OF having constructed the
| first petroleum motor belongs to q
Frenchman. M. Lenoir, the inventor
| of the fixed gas engine, who succeeded
in applying the system devised by him
for fixed engines to the propulsion of
sms II carriages.
But it Is an unquestionable fact that
Daimler was the first to render the
automobile a practical carriage. The
'Velo" says of him: To Daimler be-
longs, beyond dispute, the title of
creator OF the automobile. He alone
carriage Of to-day, built the first, and
lived to see the type which be created
at the head Of the industry"
BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.
Herr Daimler was born in Wurtem.
berg in 1886. He was the son of work
ingclass parents, and, like msny other
inventors, was even in his infancy pas
sionAtsly interested in machinery. His
education was quite elementary, but he
never ceased to extend 1T, though
physics and mechanics formed the
lead ing features in his studies. 1t Is
interesting to notice that when quite
q child his experiments with ex plosives
rendered him q terror to the neigh
bornooh in which be lived.
This being so, IL was only natural
voyage of life in q mandatory of
small arms, at Grafenstadt, in Alsace,
then French province. After the |
war he crossed over to England, and |
spent many years N q large locomotive |
factory at Manchester.
But the turning point of his life was |
the year 1872, when he entered, as /
engineer, the house OF Otto
and Langen, the famous gas motor
This directed his at:en-
lion to the question of automobiles, for
& WAS here that he bscams acquainted
With M. Sarszin, who was the repre-
tentative of Otto and LanRen, and who
acted for Daimler, aud
ook out the patents which brought
he inventor fame and fortune.
In 1882 Daimler separated his con-
lection with the Otto firm, and re-
urned to his residence at Cannstadt,
'here within year he produced his
rst motor.
AS soon as the patent was made pub
lc, In 1888, company was formed to
'ork 1t, and in very short time the
utomob1le was an accomplished fact.
he first dates from 1885, and was of a
alf-horse power. In the same year
anne out the fret automobile "char-s-
Aocs," and in the following year there
as procession of these carriages in
le park at Cannstadt, while At the
'me time boat carrying eleven per-
ms was cruising about On the lake.
The real success of the Inventor,
owever, began in 1887, when M.
srazin took out Daimler's patents In
rance. In the following year nego-
Ations we're entered In to with the firm
Panhard and Levassor for the work
IN pleted In the following year. On
ecem Der 10, 1889, the first French 4
otor was turned ont by the French
m, marked humble thirteen and sold =
M. Bouet, of Barcelona. MN. Peugeot T.
ceived two others Immediately after -, -
ards. u
In the meantime M. Sarazin had w
ed, and his widow, who subsequently, =.
srried M. Levassor, brought him as "
n dOwry the exclusive concession of &C
e Daimler patents for France, which y.
main In the possession of M.Levassor
his sleeping partner to this
y.
Thus, says the ''Velo," Dainler's In
nsion was grated, SO to speak, on
ench industry. which heucefOrth III
- to give it its finest impulse.
Daimler continued to work at Cam
Ldt, whence he sent forth patents for
ance, England, America, Russia and he