Improvements Of The Fuel Efficiency Of Cars

  • Christian Huygens

    Christian Huygens
    Christian was a Dutch Physicist who designed a combustion engine that would be fueled with gun powder. This engine was never built.
  • Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland

    Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland
    Francois was a switzerland invertor who invented a combustion engine that would fuel on Hydrogen and Oxygen. He also designed a car to go with the engine.
  • Samuel Brown

    Samuel Brown
    Samuel was an english engineer who made an old steam engine to burn gas; he used the engine to power a vehicle in London.
  • Jean JosephÉTienne Lenoir

    Jean JosephÉTienne Lenoir
    Jean was a Belgian born engineer who invented an electric sparked enginition which was powered by coal gas. In 1863, he had upgraded his invention by using patrolium and carburator to a wheeled-wagoon which managed a 50 mile road trip. (This was a historical event.)
  • Alphonse Beau De Rochas

    Alphonse Beau De Rochas
    Alphonse was a French civil engineer. He designed but did NOT build an engine.
  • Siegfried Marcus

    Siegfried was an Aussie engineer, he built an engine that was in the shape of a cylinder and attached it to a cart for a 500 foot drive. Years later, he designed a auto-mobile that ran at 10mph. It was the first gasilline powered vehicle.
  • Eugnen Langen and Nikalus Otto War

    Eugnen and Nikalus were German engineers who improved Lenoirs and De Rochas designs to make a more efficient gas engines.
  • George Brayton

    George was an american engineer, he developed an unsucsessful two-stroke kerosenen engine.
  • Sir Dougald Clerk

    Douglad made the first sucsessful two-stroke engine.
  • Edourd Delamare-Debouteville

    Edourd was a french engineer, he built a single cylinder four-stroked engine that fuels on strok gas. His designs were very advanced for the time...
  • Gottlieb Daimlei

    Gottlieb invented a prodo type of a modern gas engine.
  • Karl benz

    Karl recieved patent for a gas fueled car.
  • Daimler

    Daimler had built an improved four-stroked engine.
  • Wilhelm Maybach

    wilhelm built the first four-cylinder and four-stroke engine.