History of the Carburettor

10.4 Carburettor

• The invention of the carburettor is often attributed to Wilhelm Maybach (German).

• He designed the carburettor that was fitted to an engine called the “Grandfather Clock” which Gottlieb Daimler produced in 1885.

• Maybach did not, however submit his patent until a decade later, in 1895.

• In 1893 Donat Banki and Janos Csonka (Hungarians) were the first to receive a patent for the invention of a carburettor.

• In 1902 George Schebler (American) patented and manufactured a carburettor called the “Schebler Carburetor”.