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Dutch Physicist created the internal combustion engine that was fueled by gunpowder
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Used a mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen for the internal combustion engine.
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Sameul Brown, an English engineer adapted an old Newcomen steam engine used to burn gas to breifly power up a vehicle
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A french civil engineer bulit a four stroke engine.
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Geirge Brayton, and American engineer devolped an unsuccessful 2 stroke engine.
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Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the "Otto cycle".
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French engineer, Edouard Delemare built a single cylinder-four storke engine that ran on stove gas.
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Daimler first built the a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" with this engine and a year later he built the first four wheel vehicle in the world
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Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.
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Wilhem Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.
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Adolf Hitelr inisted that the Volkswagen group to be affordable to every citzen of Germany and fuel effciency was part of his idea of affordability.
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The Volkswagen Beetle and other VW models were made popular fuel-effcient vehicles in America during the 1960's.
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Many countries experince severe gasoline shortage during the 1960's.
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General motors created there own small line of fuel effcient vehicles the "Geo" line. It had a bubble shaped hatchback and built around a 3-cylinder motor.