- Source: Emil Lerp
Emil Lerp (1 January 1886 – 1 January 1966) was a German businessman and inventor of the first mass produced transportable gasoline chainsaw.
Career
Lerp was born in Goldbach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1886. In 1927, he invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw. Lerp tested his invention on a hill called Dolmar, and named his company after the testing site. On 15 June 1928, Lerp received a patent in Germany for his invention. His former business partner Andreas Stihl founded the German company Stihl which also makes chainsaws.
References
External links
dolmarpowerproducts.com Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
Welt.de: Großes Herz für Forstarbeiter (German)
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- Emil Lerp
- Lerp
- Emil (given name)
- Dolmar
- Andreas Stihl
- 1927 in science
- Chainsaw
- List of German inventions and discoveries
- Goldbach, Thuringia
- 1927 in Germany
