The Car Engine

internal combustion engine

Jan 1, 1680

Dutch physicist , Chritsian Huygens designed (didnt bulid) an internal combustion engine. Fuled by gunpowder

Internal Combustion Engine

Jan 1, 1807

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Francias Isaac de Riverz invented the internal combustion engine with a mixture that used hydrogen and oxygen as fuel.

Internal Combustion Engine

Jan 1, 1858

Engineer Lenoir invented and patented invented a double acting, spark-ignition internal combustion engine. Fuled by coal gas

Four Stroke Engine

Jan 16, 1862

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Alphonse Beau de Rochas patented the four stroke engine (did not build).

Internal Combustion Engine

Jan 1, 1863

Lenoir attached an improved engine to a three wheeledwagon and the wagon made a 50 mile road trip.

one cylinder engine

Jan 1, 1864

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+evolution+of+the+engine&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usenigeer seigfried marcus bulit a one cylinder engine with a crude carburetor and attached it to his engine

Two stroke engine

Jan 1, 1873

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usGeorge Bayton invented an two-stroke korosene engine but was unsuccessful. It is still consider the frirst safe practical oil engine.

Four Stroke

Jan 1, 1876

Nikolous August Otto invented and later patened a four stroke engine (otto-cycle)

Two-stroke engine

Jan 1, 1876

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usSir Dougald Clerk invented the first susccessful two-stroke engine.

Gas Fuled Car

Jan 29, 1886

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+evolution+of+the+engine&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Karl Benz got the first patent for a gas fuled car

Four Stroke

Jan 1, 1889

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+evolution+of+the+engine&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Daimler bulit an improved four stroke engine. it had mushroom shaped valves and two v-slant cyclinders

Four-Stroke Engine

Jan 1, 1890

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fRbxox9L_0AJ:inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Wilhelm Maybach created the first four-cylinder four-stroke engine.