Gottlieb Daimler (17. 3. 1834 - 6. 3. 1900) - German inventor and innovator. He co-authored a modern high-speed internal combustion engine design, which spurred a boom in automobile. He built also the first motorcycle and truck.

Gottlieb Daimler is rightly regarded as a technical visionary. Born in the German town of Schorndorf in the present state of Baden-W�rttemberg. First experience with stroja�inou gathered in a factory producing locomotives at Graffenstaden, where he went to study in Stuttgart Polytechnic. After graduating as an engineer had returned to the factory, but soon headed for further experience in industrialized England. After returning to Germany had several businesses until he got a job as technical director in the firm engines Otto-Langen in Deutz. Along with Wilhelm Maybach in 1877 to let the patented four-stroke engine, however their patent was later removed because of similar structures come first.

After ten years at the company both finished and started a private development of internal combustion engines. One of the improved performance of aggregates half horse Daimler has built into a wooden bicycle with side wheels, the so-called boneshaker, who became the first motorcycle. In 1886, he further improved engine power of 1.1 kW powered speeds up to 16 kilometers per hour wheel carriage. Three years later, the two colleagues in France introduced a vehicle produced in cooperation with the firm later known by the acronym NSU. The engine was so successful that in France began producing under license. In 1890 he founded the Daimler factory Maybachen railcars DMG. Provide them with support and financiers Duttenhofer Lorenz, who, however, the company later without the knowledge of shareholders in debt and nearly brought to ruin. He had left the company Maybach and Daimler sold off its stake prefer. Yet to mark DMG yet both returned. In 1896 he began working eponymous company in the UK, redeemed by English entrepreneur. Gottlieb Daimler came to the history as well as the designer of the first truck, which introduced in the 1892nd