1. Turning Points in US History: The Internal Combustion Engine
... invented the very unsuccessful kerosene powered engine in 1873. Six years later, Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as theOtto cycle?. Later in 1883, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville built a single cylinder four-stroke that ran on stove gas. In 1885 Gottlieb Daimler invented what most historians recognize as the first modern gas engine with vertical cylinders ... ...
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