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Hydromobil

1900-1907

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Hydromobil was an automobile developed in Leipzig by the inventor W. von Pittler, who built it entirely independently of the Daimler and Benz designs that other manufacturers of the time had followed. Its petrol engine had no cylinders or pistons in the conventional sense. Instead, an oscillating armature moved back and forth inside two or four square, rather than round, explosion chambers, and a connecting rod turned this oscillation into…

Germany · 1900-1907 · Associated with Wilhelm von Pittler

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