Marampa Motor

The postmaster�s son and skilled businessman was active in his spare time as a mechanical engineer and founded in 1864 together with Eugen Langen, the first engine factory in the world. Under the umbrella of �Deutz gas engine factory� Nicolaus Dignified Otto developed a gas engine in 1876 with the four-stroke opinion, which provided the prototype for all subsequent combustion engines. 1884 Otto invented the electrical detonation of its gas engines. With this change, it became possible to also use liquid fuel to an alternative to the previously only used gas. The �petrol engine� meant the initial impetus for the development of the automobile and the rise of the related industry. Nicolaus Dignified Otto was born on 14 June 1832 in Holzhausen on the heath in the Taunus born. His father was postmaster. With school, Otto did an apprenticeship as a merchant. He then worked as a clerk in Frankfurt / Main and Cologne. In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Otto was interest...

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor. He was one of the founders of the rubber company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. He was born on a farm in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, and studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh, a profession he pursued for nearly ten years at home, moving to Downpatrick, Ireland, in 1867. He established Downe Veterinary Clinic in Downpatrick with his brother James Dunlop before moving to a practice in 38-42 May Street, Belfast. He was a good friend of Queen Victoria. In 1887, he developed the first practical pneumatic or inflatable tyre for his son's tricycle, tested it in Cherryvale sports ground, South Belfast, and patented it on 7 December 1888. Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of Dunlop's newly invented pneumatic tyres in 1889, winning the tyre's first ever races in Ireland and then England. The captain of the 'Belfast Cruisers Cycling Club', he became the first member of the...