Re: Who invented an autommobile engine that

Date: Wed Aug 18 10:48:58 1999
Posted By: Dan Berger, MadSci Admin
Area of science: Science History
ID: 934838456.Sh

Message:

There are two basic types of piston-driven internal combustion engine in use today: the Otto-cycle engine (which is the normal engine we find in cars, and uses spark plugs) and the diesel engine, which does not use spark plugs.

Both types are named for their inventors: Nikolaus August Otto and Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel.

Source: "Internal-Co m bustion Engine," Microsoft^Ž Encarta^Ž 97 Encyclopedia.
More information may be found at Encarta^Ž's article on the Automobile Industry.

	Dan Berger
	MadSci Adminstrator

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