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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪbax]; 9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was a German engineer and business leader who designed engines and created machines. In the 1890s, he was called the “King of Designers” in France, which was the leading country for car production at that time. From the late 1800s, Wilhelm Maybach worked with Gottlieb Daimler to create lightweight, high-speed engines that could be used on land, water, and in the air.

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Carl Benz

Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛnts]; born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engineer who designed engines and worked on cars. His invention, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885, is considered the first practical, modern automobile and the first car to be mass-produced. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German: [ˈɡɔtliːp ˈdaɪmlɐ]; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer, and industrialist. He helped develop engines and cars. He created a high-speed engine that used liquid petroleum fuel.

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Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: /ˈd iː z əl ˌ – s əl /, German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʀɪsti̯an kaʁl ˈdiːzl̩]; born March 18, 1858, and died September 29, 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for creating the diesel engine, which uses diesel fuel. Both the engine and the fuel are named after him.

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Carl von Linde

Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered the refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. Linde was the founder of the company now known as Linde plc but formerly known (variously) as the Linde division of Union Carbide, Linde, Linde Air Products, Praxair, and others.

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Otto Schott

Friedrich Otto Schott (1851–1935) was a German chemist and expert in glassmaking. He invented borosilicate glass, a type of glass known for its strength and heat resistance. Schott carefully studied how the chemical makeup of glass affects its properties.

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Ernst Abbe

Ernst Karl Abbe (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. He worked with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss to create many optical tools. Abbe was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German company that makes scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other optical equipment.

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Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss (German: [kaʁl ˈtsaɪs]; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientist, lens maker, and business owner. In 1846, he started his business, which is still known as Zeiss today. He brought together skilled workers and scientists to change how optical instruments were made.

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Per-Ingvar Brånemark

Per-Ingvar Brånemark (May 3, 1929, to December 30, 2014) was a Swedish doctor and scientist. He is known as the “father of modern dental implantology.” The Brånemark Osseointegration Center (BOC), which is named after him, was established in 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Manne Siegbahn

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist born on December 3, 1886, and he died on September 26, 1978. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy.

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