Happy Birthday To The Man Who Got Internal Combustion Right It's the birthday of the man who finally perfected internal-combustion, Nikolaus Otto. While he was a travelling salesman he heard about the Lenoir internal-combustion engine, and started experimenting on his own. After developing a carburetor for the Lenoir engine, which allowed the use of liquid fuel instead of the pain-in-the-ass to store and more gaseous fuel, he started to look at the ...
June 10, 2013 - Jalopnik