Information AboutNikolaus Otto |
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Internal-combustion Engine , the first engine to burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Up until his invention, all engines were External-combustion Engine s and fuel was burned in a separate compartment. As a young man he began experimenting with gas engines and in 1864 joined with two friends to form his own company. The company was named N. A. Otto & Cie. , which was the first company to manufacture Internal-combustion Engine s. The company exists today as Deutz AG . His first Atmospheric Engine was completed in May 1867 . Five years later he was joined by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach and together they produced the idea of the Four-stroke Cycle or Otto cycle. First described in when it was discovered that another inventor, Alphonse Beau De Rochas , had already described the four-stroke cycle principle in a privately published pamphlet. According to recent historical studies, the Italian inventors , working independantly in another part of Germany , Karl Benz was granted a patent for his internal combustion engine and in 1885 used the engine to move a three-wheeled automobile that was granted a patent. Otto originally sold his engine as stationary. In 1926, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler merged companies. EXTERNAL LINKS
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