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A brief outline of the history of the internal combustion engine includes the following highlights:
* 1680 - Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder.
* 1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.
* 1824 - English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.
* 1858 - Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph
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∙ 16y agoA brief outline of the history of the internal combustion engine includes the following highlights:
* 1680 - Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder.
* 1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.
* 1824 - English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.
* 1858 - Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty-mile road trip. (See image at top)
* 1862 - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke engine (French patent #52,593, January 16, 1862).
* 1864 - Austrian engineer, Siegfried Marcus*, built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor, and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. Several years later, Marcus designed a vehicle that briefly ran at 10 mph that a few historians have considered as the forerunner of the modern automobile by being the world's first gasoline-powered vehicle (however, read conflicting notes below).
* 1873 - George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.
* 1866 - German engineers, Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto improved on Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine.
* 1876 - Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the "Otto cycle".
* 1876 - The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.
* 1883 - French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car, however, Delamare-Debouteville's designs were very advanced for the time - ahead of both Daimler and Benz in some ways at least on paper.
* 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
* 1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
* 1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.
* 1890 - Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.
* Further Reading - The Mechanics of Internal Combustion Engines - What is a 2-stroke? 4-stroke?
Engine design and car design were integral activities, almost all of the engine designers mentioned above also designed cars, and a few went on to become major manufacturers of automobiles. All of these inventors and more made notable improvements in the evolution of the internal combustion vehicles.
Above retrieved from http://inventors.about.com
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Invented combustion engine?
Gottlieb Daimler invented the combustion engine.
When and who invented the combustion engine?
no
What year was internal combustion engine invented?
1872
How was the internal combustion engine invented?
With research and development.
Where was the internal combustion engine invented?
narnia
Who invented internal combustion engine?
Nicholas Otto
Who invented the international combuston engine?
Nikolaus Otto invented the four-stroke internal combustion engine
When were internal combustion engines invented?
In 1897 Rudolph Diesel invented his engine.
When was the first combustion engine fitted in a car?
The first practical automobile with an internal combustion engine was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz in Germany.
In what year were car engines invented?
Many different car engines have been invented. The first internal combustion engine was invented in 1807. It used a fuel of hydrogen and oxygen. In 1858 the first coal gas fueled internal combustion engine was invented. In 1864 a gasoline fueled engine was attached to a cart.
Who invented the radial engine?
Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer invented the first 3 cylinder radial internal combustion engine in 1904.
When was internal combustion engine invented?
The internal combustion engine was invented in 1876 by German engineer Nikolaus August Otto. Otto's engine, commonly known as the "Otto engine," was the first successful four-stroke engine and revolutionized the way people think about and use engines. The internal combustion engine has since become a crucial technology for powering everything from cars and boats to generators and airplanes.
