The first internal-combustion engine to operate successfully on the four-stroke cycle was built in 1876 by Nicolaus August Otto. His "Silent Otto" was a good machine with a poor theory ...

Model A man called Nicolaus Otto patented the first liquid-fuelled internal combustion engine (ICE) in 1872. So you’d think that, over the past 153 years, with the world’s best engineers in ...

It's a mash-up of Rudolph Diesel and Nikolaus Otto, the two German inventors ... the components of diesel and petrol engines are growing closer: the combustion process, common-rail direct ...

Richard Trevithick’s design had a boiler but this was removed to make the internal combustion engine. The German inventor Nicklaus Otto developed the first four stroke engine in 1876.