development in car engines

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  • 1698 – Thomas Savery builds a steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines.

  • 1712 – Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines.

  • 1769 – James Watt patents his first improved steam engine.

  • 1806 – François Isaac de Rivaz invented a hydrogen powered engine, the first successful internal combustion engine.

  • 1816 – Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine, and what we now call a "regenerator".

  • 1821 – Michael Faraday builds an electricity-powered motor.

  • 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment.

  • 1837 – First American patent for an electric motor (U.S. Patent 132).

  • 1850 – The first explicit statement of the first and second law of thermodynamics, given by Rudolf Clausius.

  • Nikolaus Otto patents a four-stroke internal combustion engine (U.S. Patent 194,047).

  • 1882 – James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine, now common in some hybrid vehicles.

  • 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the first supercharger.

  • 1892 – Rudolf Diesel creates the Diesel engine (U.S. Patent 608,845).

  • 1899– Ferdinand Porsche creates the first hybrid vehicle.

  • 1913 – René Lorin invents the ramjet.

  • 1915 – Leonard Dyer invents a six-stroke engine, now known as the Crower six-stroke engine named after his reinventor Bruce Crower.

  • 1939 – The BMW company's BMW 801 aviation radial engine pioneers the use of an early form of an engine control unit, the Kommandogerät.

  • 1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine

  • 1960s – alternators replace generators on automobile engines.

  • 1970s – electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines.

  • 1970s – electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines.

  • 1980s – electronically controlled ignition improved to reduce pollution.

  • 1980s – electronic fuel injection appears on gasoline automobile engines

  • 1990s – Hybrid vehicles that run on an internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electric motor charged by regenerative braking.