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Christian Huygens started toying with the notion of an internal combustion engine but he never tried to build the engine. His ideas of an engine started the thought of a self propelled wagon and eventually lead to the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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Nicephore Niepce put his home made internal combustion engine on a boat and powered up the Saone river in france. This engine ran on coal dust, Napoleon granted him a patent on the engine.
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Jean created the first non steam powered engine. Lenoir made somewhat reliable two stroke engine on a three wheel carriage that runs off of coal gas, and is a breakthrough for inventors to start trying to make a combustion engine.
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Hock invented the first engine that can run off of liquid gasoline, a much more reliable fuel source
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Nikolaus Otto began to research the combustion engine and tried to make improvements. Nikolaus comes up with a four stroke engine that renders Lenoirs model obselete
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This patent was on a horseless carriage that had an internal combustion engine. This sparked the start to American car companies eventually leading to ford and chevy.
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Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach built the first prototype motorcycle with an internal combustion engine
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the first gas pump is installed in fort wayne, this is because the mass productive of the internal combustion engine in vehicles.
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Bertha and Carl Benz took the first long distance trip of a car with the internal combustion engine. They traveled 64 miles and proved that the internal combustion engine is reliable and should be mass produced on vehicles.
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Daimler invents a new V-shaped engine with more horsepower. This engine is said to be the prototype for all modern day engines.
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Charles and Frank Duryea manufactor the first gas powered, internal combustion engine in America
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Fredrick Lanchester started putting carburetors on automobiles to get a good amount of oxygen and fuel in the pistons of a internal combustion engine. This invention was typical on cars until about 1980 when direct injected cars became popular.
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Rudolf Diesel invents the first internal combustion engine using diesel power. His engine was more fuel efficient than regular gas engines and steam engines which wasted more than half of their fuel. They are commonly used in trucks, submarines and trains.
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orville and wilbur Wright build the first flying machine to sustain flight. They built a special, high power internal combustion engine to make the plane fly
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Henry Ford invented the model T car which is cheap and mass produced. This car uses a an internal combustion engine and at the time is the most popular vehicle on the roads.
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Cadillac creates the first production v8 internal combustion engine. This engine had 70 horse power and was very powerful for its time. The U.S. army purchased 2000 of these engines to use in world war one.
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Due to the reliability of the internal combustion engine in cars, it was made possible to create roads so that a person could drive from one side of the country to the other.
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Francesco De Virilo invented the first pruduction v6 internal combustion engine. This engine was used to cut down on vibration problems in the Lancia Aureilia but was soon adopted by many other companies.
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Paul Deiges acquired a patent on a hydrogen powered internal combustion engine. The car interanally converts the hydrogen into electricity to power the engine.
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Steven Zach patent his rotary internal ombustion engine. It is an engine with rotating recipicral pistons that uses less gas.