Motor Boat
The earliest boat to be powered by a petrol engine was tested on the Neckar river by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybachin 1886, when they tested their new "longcase clock" engine. It had been constructed in the former greenhouse (converted into a workshop) in Daimler's back yard.The first public display took place on the Waldsee in Cannstatt, today a suburb ofStuttgart, at the end of that year. The engine of this boat had a single cylinder of 1 horse power. Daimler's second launch in 1887 had a second cylinder positioned at an angle of 15 degrees to the first one, and was known as the "V" type.
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