Where was internal combustion engine invented?
1206: Al-Jazari demonstrates an early rotary-to-reciprocating motion, which is a waterwheel-powered pump. 1509: Leonardo da Vinci described a compressionless engine. 1673: Christiaan Huygens described a compressionless engine. 17th century: English inventor Sir Samuel Morland used gunpowder to drive water pumps, essentially creating the first rudimentary internal combustion engine. 1780’s: Alessandro Volta built a toy electric pistol ([1]) in which an electric spark exploded a mixture of air and hydrogen, firing a cork from the end of the gun. 1794: Robert Street built a compressionless engine whose principle of operation would dominate for nearly a century. 1806: Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built an internal combustion engine powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. 1823: Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially. It was compressionless and based on what Hardenberg calls the “Leonardo cycle,” which, as the name implies, was al
