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Born February 9, 1846 • Heilbronn • Germany
Died December 29, 1929 (aged 83) • Stuttgart • Germany
Founder Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester
English engineer
Leland, Henry M.
Henry M. Leland
American engineer and manufacturer
Lord Austin, 1937
Herbert Austin, Baron Austin
British industrialist
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
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Robert Bosch
German engineer
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Eugen Langen
German engineer
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J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari
Italian automobile manufacturer
André-Gustave Citroën
André-Gustave Citroën
French engineer
Mini
Sir Alec Issigonis
British automobile designer
Chevrolet, Louis
Louis Chevrolet
Swiss-born automobile designer and race-car driver
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Elwood Haynes
American industrialist
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Arthur William Sidney Herrington
American engineer and manufacturer
Ransom Eli Olds, c. 1920.
Ransom Eli Olds
American manufacturer
Porsche, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian engineer
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René Panhard
French engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer
Dornier, Claudius
Claudius Dornier
German engineer