History of the internal combustion engine explained
Internal combustion engines date back to between the 10th and 13th centuries, when the first rocket engines were invented in China. Following the first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) by Thomas Savery in 1698, various efforts were made during the 18th century to develop equivalent internal combustion engines. In 1791, the English inventor John Barber patented a gas turbine. In 1794, Thomas Mead patented a gas engine. Also in 1794, Robert Street patented an internal-combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel (petroleum) and built an engine around that time. In 1798, John Stevens designed the first American internal combustion engine. In 1807, French engineers Nicéphore and Claude Niépce ran a prototype internal combustion engine, using controlled dust explosions, the Pyréolophore. This engine powered a boat on the river in France. The same year, the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built and patented a hydrogen and oxygen-powered internal-combustion engine. Fitted to a crude four-wheeled wagon, François Isaac de Rivaz first drove it 100 metres in 1813, thus making history as the first car-like vehicle known to have been powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially in the United States in 1823. Brown also demonstrated a boat using his engine on the Thames in 1827, and an engine-driven carriage in 1828. Father Eugenio Barsanti, an Italian engineer, together with Felice Matteucci of Florence invented the first real internal combustion engine in 1853. Their patent request was granted in London on June 12, 1854, and published in London's Morning Journal under the title "Specification of Eugene Barsanti and Felix Matteucci, Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gasses". In 1860, Belgian Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir produced a gas-fired internal combustion engine. In 1864, Nicolaus Otto patented the first commercially successful gas engine.
George Brayton invented the first commercial liquid-fueled internal combustion engine in 1872. In 1876, Nicolaus Otto, working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, patented the compressed charge, four-stroke cycle engine. In 1879, Karl Benz patented a reliable two-stroke gas engine. In 1892, Rudolf Diesel developed the first compressed charge, compression ignition engine. In 1954 German engineer Felix Wankel patented a "pistonless" engine using an eccentric rotary design.
The first liquid-fuelled rocket was launched in 1926 by Robert Goddard. The Heinkel He 178 became the world's first jet aircraft by 1939, followed by the first ramjet engine in 1949 and the first scramjet engine in 2004.
Prior to 1850
- Before 100 AD: The fire piston is invented in Southeast Asia, and its use is concentrated in Austronesia. This device and earlier Diesel's experiences with pneumatic pumps, inspired the Diesel engine, which also uses compression ignition (as opposed to spark ignition).
- 10th to 13th century: The fire arrow, a gunpowder-fuelled form of rocket engine, is invented in China.[1]
- 1206: Al-Jazari's four-bucket water lifting machine, according to Professor Recep Kulcu, "can be considered the precursor to the eccentric and crankshafts found in modern internal combustion engines."[2]
- 1678–1679: The Huygens' engine, a prototype single-cylinder gunpowder engine is built by Dutch inventor Christiaan Huygens.
- 1745 : Abbot Agostino Ruffo of Verona testing a pump for leaks noticed that, after pressurization the wood plug had been scorched. Later he made an apparatus to further study timber ignition by pumps.[3]
- 1780s: An "electric pistol", which used an electric spark to ignite hydrogen gas in an enclosed vessel, is invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta.[4] This is possibly the first example of a spark-ignition heat engine.
- 1791: The principle for a gas turbine engine is described in the patent A Method for Rising Inflammable Air for the Purposes of Producing Motion and Facilitating Metallurgical Operations by British inventor John Barber.
- 1794: A reciprocating piston engine is built by Robert Street. This engine was fuelled by gas vapours, used the piston's intake stroke to draw in outside air, and the air/fuel mixture was ignited by an external flame.[5] Another gas engine was also patented in 1794 by Thomas Mead.[6]
- 1801: The concept of using compression in a two-stroke gas engine was theorised by French engineer Philippe LeBon D’Humberstein.[7]
- 1807: One of the first known working internal combustion engines – called the Pyréolophore – is built by French inventors Claude Niépce and Nicéphore Niépce. This single prototype engine used a series of controlled dust explosions and was used to power a boat upstream in the river Saône in France.
- 1807: The hydrogen-fuelled De Rivaz engine is built by Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz and fitted to a wheeled carriage, possibly creating the first known automobile.[8] This prototype engine used spark-ignition (as per the 1780s Alessandro Volta design above).
- 1823: The concept of a gas vacuum engine is patented by British engineer Samuel Brown. One of Brown's engines was used to pump water at a canal in London from 1830 to 1836.
- 1824: The Carnot cycle – a thermodynamic theory for heat engines – is published in a research paper by French physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot.
- 1826: A patent for the principle of a "gas or vapor engine" is granted to American inventor Samuel Morey.[9] The patent includes the first known design for a carburetor.
- 1833: A patent for a double-acting gas Lemuel Wellman Wright, UK patent no. 6525, table-type gas engine. Double-acting gas engine, first record of water-jacketed cylinder.[10]
- 1838: A patent for the principle of a double-acting gas engine is granted to British inventor William Barnett. This is the first known design to propose in-cylinder compression and the use of a water jacket for cooling.[11]
1850–1879
- 1853–1857: A patent for the principle of the free-piston Barsanti–Matteucci engine is granted to Italian mathematician Eugenio Barsanti and engineer Felice Matteucci. The design was intended to provide power by the vacuum in the combustion chamber pulling the piston downwards, following the explosion of a gas fuel within the combustion chamber.[12] [13]
- 1860: Belgian-French[14] engineer Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir invented an atmospheric (non-compression) gas engine, using a layout similar to a horizontal double acting steam engine.[15] The design's patent was titled Moteur à air dilaté par combustion des gaz. Allegedly, in 1860, several of these engines were built and used commercially in Paris.[16] By 1867, about 280 units of the Lenoir engine had been built. Friedrich Sass considers the Lenoir engine to be the first functional internal combustion engine.[16]
- 1861: The principle for the four-stroke engine is described by French engineer Alphonse Beau de Rochas in the essay titled Nouvelles recherches sur les conditions pratiques de l'utilisation de la chaleur et en général de la force motrice. Avec application au chemin de fer et à la navigation. De Rochas applied for a patent, however it was declared invalid two years later.[16]
- 1862: A prototype four-stroke engine, created from a modified Lenoir engine, is built by German engineers Nicolaus Otto and Michael Zons. The engine was only able to run for a few minutes before it self-destructed.[16] [17]
- 1864–1875: The first petrol-powered automobile – a prototype handcart – is built by German inventor Siegfried Marcus.[16] [18] [19]
- 1864: The first commercially successful internal combustion engine – a gas-fuelled atmospheric engine – is produced by German engineers Eugen Langen and Nicolaus Otto.[16] The engine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1867[20] and was patented in 1868.[16] Fuel consumption of this engine was less than half that of the Lenoir and Hugon engines.[16]
- 1865: The Hugon engine – an improved version of the Lenoir engine with flame ignition, better fuel economy[21] and water injection into the cylinders for cooling – is introduced by French engineer Pierre Hugon. This engine was produced commercially for applications such as printing presses and patent offices.
- 1872: The first commercial liquid-fuelled engine, the Brayton's Ready Motor was patented by American engineer George Brayton. This engine used constant pressure combustion and began commercial production in 1876.[16]
- 1876: The first functional Otto cycle engine – called the Otto Silent Engine – is built by Nicholas Otto, Franz Rings and Herman Schumm at the German company Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik. The engine compressed the air/fuel mixture before combustion, unlike the other atmospheric engines of the time. The engine was a single-cylinder unit that displaced 6.1 dm3, and was rated 3 PS (2,206 W) at 180/min, with a fuel consumption of 0.95 m3/PSh (1.29 m3/kWh).[16] Wilhelm Maybach later improved the engine by changing the connecting rod and piston design from trunk to crosshead, so it could be put into series production.[16]
- 1876: Otto applied for a patent on a stratified charge engine that would use the four-stroke principle. The patent was granted in 1876 in Elsass–Lothringen, and transformed into a German Realm Patent in 1877 (DRP 532, 4 August 1877).[16]
- 1879: A prototype two-stroke gas engine is built by German engineer Carl Benz.[22]
1880–1899
1900–1919
1920–1939
1940–1979
1980 to present
- 1981: Ferrari 126C F1 car used a Hot vee turbocharged engine in 1981.
- 1983: Isuzu builds a ceramic engine that runs on diesel and consumes half the fuel of other comparable engines of the time. Ceramic was used as the material in the cylinders of the engine.[49] [50]
- 1985: The General Electric GE36 propfan runs for the first time.[51]
- 1989: VTEC was introduced as a DOHC (dual overhead camshaft) system in Japan in the 1989 Honda Integra XSim[52]
- Early 1990s: Carburetors had been replaced by fuel injection. [53] [54]
- 1991: Toyota develops laser-clad valve seats. They entered mass production in 1997.[55] [56]
- 1995: Toyota introduces VVT-i.[57]
- 1998: From 1998 to 2000, the McLaren Formula One team used Mercedes-Benz engines with beryllium-aluminium-alloy pistons.[58] The use of beryllium engine components was banned following a protest by Scuderia Ferrari.[59] At one point the material was also used in cylinder liners.[60]
- 2004: The first scramjet-powered airplane – the NASA X-43 prototype – completes a test flight.
- 2006: Mercedes-Benz adopts the use of twin-wire arc spraying to produce highly smooth cylinder liners.[61]
- 2006: The BMW Hydrogen 7 is offered with a hydrogen internal combustion engine[62]
- 2008: BMW N63 was the first production Hot vee turbocharged engine, used in the US-made BMW X6 since 2008.
- 2008: Ford publishes the use of a Plasma Transferred Wire Arc process for making highly smooth cylinder liners, used in mass production in 2015.[63] [64]
- 2011: Mitsubishi develops a gas turbine with a combustion temperature of 1600°C.[65]
- 2013: General Electric starts development of the GE9X with a compression ratio of 61:1.[66]
- 2014: Liquidpiston shows a prototype of an engine with a design similar to an inverted Wankel engine: The combustion chamber is triangular while the rotor is oval.[67]
- 2016: Qoros Auto shows a vehicle with a camless piston engine. In 2020, Koenigsegg showed the idea again.[68] [69] [70]
- 2017: The 2019 Infiniti QX50 is available with a turbocharged Variable compression ratio engine.[71]
- 2017: Achates Power shows a maximum brake thermal efficiency of 55 percent in a reciprocating engine.[72]
- 2020: Maserati introduces pre-chamber ignition in its commercially available Nettuno engine.[73] [74]
- 2021: During the COP26 conference, 24 countries committed to all new cars sold being zero emission vehicles (effectively banning the production of petrol-powered or diesel-powered cars) by the year 2040.
- 2022: The Avadi MA-250 engine features a design in which the piston and connecting rods rotate during engine operation.[75]
- 2022: Hyundai stops internal combustion engine development.[76]
- 2023: The first ammonia powered engine for cars is developed by GAC Group.[77] [78]
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