Internal Combustion Engine

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  • Internal Combustion Engine

    The first internal combustion engine was built in 1878, and powered by gas and air.

  • Light Engine

    In 1886, Gottlieb Daimler invented the light engine, which was the key component in automobiles.

  • Oil Fired Engine

    In 1897, the oil-fired engine was produced.

  • Zeppelin Air-Ship

    The first Zeppelin airship was designed by Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, a retired German army officer, and made its initial flight from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany, on July 2, 1900.

  • Ocean Liner Swich

    The Hamburg-Amerika LIne switched from coal to oil on its new ocean liners in 1902.

  • Wright Brothers Airplane

    In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first flight in a fixed wing plane powered by a gasoline engine.

  • Model T. Ford

  • First Regular Passenger Air Service

    In 1919, the first passenger aircraft took flight.