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 ...

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

For hundreds of years of human history, the invention that has defined our ability to travel, explore, and expand our ...

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.