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The Combustion Engine
Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) the combustion engine. -
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The Beginning Of Cars
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The First Car
Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile. -
The New Combustion Engine
Francois Isaac De Rivaz of Switzerland invented the internal combustion engine. -
The Steam Engine
English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old steam engine to burn gas to briefly power a vehicle. -
Electric Spark-Ignition Internal Combustion Engine
Belgian born engineer, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir invented a spark- ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas, which was patented in 1860. -
The Four Stroke Engine
Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four stroke engine -
The One-Cylinder Engine
Australian engineer, Siegfried Marcus built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor which is the worlds first gasoline-powered vehicle. -
A More Efficient Gas Engine
German engineers, Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto improved Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine. -
An Unsuccessful Two-Stroke
George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine, but it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine. -
The Successful Four-Stroke
Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented the four stroke engine, it was known as the ''Otto cycle''. -
The First Successful Two-Stroke
The very first successful two-stroke was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk. -
A Four-Stroke That Ran On Stove Gas
French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single cylinder four-stroke that ran on stove gas, but it is not certain that he built a car. -
The First Modern Gas Engine
Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often known as the prototype of the modern gas engine and built a two wheeled car and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle. -
A Gas Fueled Car
Karl Benz recieved the first patent for a gas-fueled car. -
The "V" Engine
Gattlieb Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders -
The Four-Cylinder Four-Stroke
Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder four-stoke engine.