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 ...

The humble internal-combustion ... to give the Otto cycle a run for its money, but nothing else can provide the driving range, ease of use and reliability afforded by these engines.

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 ...

An internal combustion engine is one that operates through a thermodynamic cycle of internal combustion called Otto: when a ...

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.