Also, the diesel engine, invented by Rudolf Diesel, would be based on internal combustion, employing a four-stroke system similar to Otto’s. Nicolaus Otto died at 59, but not before establishing ...

The alleged experts claim that the engine Nicolaus Otto invented in 1876 is running out of gas. They're wrong. The beauty of Otto's internal-combustion gasoline engine was its unmatched ...

Nearly every vehicle on the road today is powered by some version of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine patented by Nikolaus Otto in 1876. Otto exploited the findings of French physicist ...

The majority of modern cars run on a combustion engine, patented way back in 1876. Here are the different types of combustion ...

The very first working four-cycle internal-combustion engine was invented by Niklaus Otto in 1876, and in due course it changed the world. A quarter of a century later, gasoline engines, steam ...

The demise of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated, or so Mercedes-Benz thinks. The company’s position stems from empirical observation, based on all rational evidence ...

Most of you reading this probably have at least a basic understanding of how an internal combustion engine works. Today’s four-stroke suck-squish-bang-blow concept was first demonstrated ...

The Otto combustion cycle is not the only way gasoline engine can operate. Back in 1882, British engineer James Atkinson developed the combustion cycle that still wears his name.

While the first Otto cycle patent was filed in 1887, Rudolf Diesel developed an alternate cycle for use in an internal combustion engine, with his first patent filed in 1898.

Amid all the hype for electric cars, Mazda is making impressive improvements to gas-powered engines. I took a spin in a prototype powered by the first gasoline compression ignition engine, which ...

The majority of modern cars run on a combustion engine, patented way back in 1876. Here are the different types of combustion engines and how each one works.