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Internal combustion engines date back to between the 10th and 13th centuries, when the first rocket engines were invented in China. Following the first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) by Thomas Savery in 1698, various efforts were made during the 18th century to develop equivalent internal combustion engines.
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, also known as Jean J. Lenoir (12 January 1822 – 4 August 1900 [1]), was a Belgian-French [2] engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807 ( De Rivaz engine ), but none were commercially successful.
Eugenio Barsanti Model of the Barsanti-Matteucci engine in the Osservatorio Ximeniano in Florence. Eugenio Barsanti (12 October 1821 – 19 April 1864), also named Nicolò, was an Italian engineer and Catholic priest who, together with Felice Matteucci, invented the first internal combustion engine in 1853.
The first commercially successful internal combustion engine was created by Étienne Lenoir around 1860, [1] and the first modern internal combustion engine, known as the Otto engine, was created in 1876 by Nicolaus Otto.
During the twelve years of collaboration between Barsanti and Matteucci several prototypes of internal combustion engines were realized. It was the first real internal combustion engine, [3] constituted in its simplest realization by a vertical cylinder in which an explosion of a mixture of air and hydrogen or an illuminating gas shot a piston upwards thereby creating a vacuum in the space ...
The engine with the flywheel included was built into a light vehicle, called the Reitwagen, the first vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. [ 16 ] It took considerable effort and experimentation, but eventually, the duo perfected a .5 hp (0.37 kW ; 0.51 PS ) vertical single, which was fitted in the Reitwagen , a purpose-built two ...
Otto's atmospheric engine Otto's 1876 four cycle engine Diagram of Otto's 1876 four cycle engine. Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832 – 26 January 1891) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.
1989 – The Bajulaz Six-Stroke Engine was invented by the Bajulaz S A company, based in Geneva, Switzerland; it has U.S. patent 4,809,511 and U.S. patent 4,513,568. 1990s – Hybrid vehicles that run on an internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electric motor charged by regenerative braking.