By the time the internal combustion engine had been perfected and widely adopted, it had already changed the world in numerous ways. It provided a new source of power that was smaller, more efficient, and more flexible than anything that had come before it. Its...
Otto’s achievement was not an isolated event, but rather the culmination of a long process of development that can be traced back several decades before his work. In particular, the Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, whose earlier inventions in the mid-19th...
