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In, 1680 Christian Huygens designed the first internal combustion engine. In 1859, Etienne Lenoir designed the first commercially successful engine.

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First Engine Ever InventedSo now we know that the first motorcycle was built by either Otto or Daimler but we still don't know who made the first engine to get the motorcycle to run. Well apparently the first engine to be invented was by the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1678 and ran on gunpowder but he never actually got around to actually building it. A few hundred years later a guy named Etienne Lenoir built an internal combustion engine much like Huygens model, only this one ran on gasoline. Then in 1866 Nikolaus Otto teamed up with a guy named Eugen Langen and they made a better internal combustion engine. All these engines so far have been two-strokes, but in 1876 Otto developed what we know today as the four-stroke internal combustion engine.


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