Emil Lerp
{{Short description|German businessman and inventor}}
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| birth_date = 1 January 1886
| birth_place = Goldbach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
| death_date = 1 January 1966
| death_place = Hamburg, West Germany
| nationality = German
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| known_for = Inventor of the transportable gasoline chainsaw
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dolmarpowerproducts.com/company/history/80_years_dolmar.html|title=dolmarpowerproducts.com|access-date=2018-03-12|archive-date=2018-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227095744/http://www.dolmarpowerproducts.com/company/history/80_years_dolmar.html|url-status=dead}} On 15 June 1928, Lerp received a patent in Germany for his invention.{{Patent
| Land = DE
| V-Nr = 508286
| Typ = Erteilung
| Title = Auf einem tragbahrenartigen Gestell angeordnete Baumsäge
| A-Datum = 1928-06-15
| V-Datum = 1930-09-26
| Erfinder = Emil Friedrich Lerp
| DB = Google
}}Baedeker-Reiseführer: Thüringen. Third edition. Ostfildern 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-8297-9234-9}}., p. 226 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3RHfAAAAQBAJ&dq=emil+lerp&pg=PT229 (online auf: books.google.de)] His former business partner Andreas Stihl founded the German company Stihl which also makes chainsaws.
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External links
- [http://www.dolmarpowerproducts.com/company/history/80_years_dolmar.html dolmarpowerproducts.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227095744/http://www.dolmarpowerproducts.com/company/history/80_years_dolmar.html |date=2018-02-27 }}
- [https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article603113/Grosses-Herz-fuer-Forstarbeiter.html Welt.de: Großes Herz für Forstarbeiter (German)]
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Category:People from Gotha (district)
Category:People from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Category:20th-century German inventors
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