IC Engine History

History of  IC Engine

From beginning to modern engine

Are you driving your car ?But do you know how your car in moving ?It just a magic of IC engine.Here I will discuss the history of modern IC engine.

The internal combustion (IC) engine is a heat engine that converts chemical energy stored in a fuel into mechanical energy, usually made available on a rotating outputshaft.

1680 - Christian Huygens, Dutch physicist designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder .
    

1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile though a unsuccessful design.

1824 - Samuel Brown, English engineer adapted an old New-comen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.

1858 - Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (Belgian engineer) invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark ignition IC engine fueled by coal gas. In 1863, he attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete.

1862 - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke engine (French patent)

1864 - Siegfried Marcus, Austrian engineer, built a one cylinder engine with a crude carburetor, and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. Several years later, Marcus designed a vehicle that briefly ran at 10 mph.

1873 - George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine, which however was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.

1866 - Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto, German engineers, improved on Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine (h = 11%, 90 rpm max).

1876 - Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the "Otto cycle“ (h = 14%, 160 rpm max.).

1876 - Sir Dougald Clerk invented the first successful two stroke engine.

1883 - Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, French engineer, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car.

1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.

1886 - Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas fueled car.

1889 - Gottlieb Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two  V-slant cylinders.

1890 - Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.

1892 – Rudolf Diesel four stroke “compression ignition” engine.

1957 - Wankel “rotary” engine.