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Karl Maybach then decided to go into car production on his own in order to make use of the large production capacities that had become idle due to the cancellation of the Dutch border. The new car brand was ready to unveil its first production car, the Maybach W 3, at the Berlin Motor Show in September 1921. The 70 hp (52 kW) in-line six-cylinder W 2 engine powered the five-meter-long vehicle, which reached speeds of up to 110 km/h. The W 3 featured a four-wheel brake system with mechanical braking power compensation and a two-speed transmission with no gearshift. Depressing a foot-operated starting lever changed gears.
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German industrialist, engineer, and inventor Robert Bosch (23 September 1861 – 12 March 1942) founded Robert Bosch GmbH.
The eleventh of twelve children, Bosch was born in Albeck, a village northeast of Ulm in southern Germany. His parents belonged to a wealthy class of local farmers. His freemason's father gave his children's education a lot of importance and was unusually well-educated for someone in his class. The father of Nobel laureate Carl Bosch, Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch (1843–1904), was one of his brothers.
The eleventh of twelve children, Bosch was born in Albeck, a village northeast of Ulm in southern Germany. His parents belonged to a wealthy class of local farmers. His freemason's father gave his children's education a lot of importance and was unusually well-educated for someone in his class. The father of Nobel laureate Carl Bosch, Carl Friedrich Alexander Bosch (1843–1904), was one of his brothers.