3 hp 4 stroke internal combustion engine

He invented a carburetor, which he tried to patent in 1861, but failed.

Otto began working on the improvement of the Lenoir engine, convinced that it would work better running with liquid fuel. However, Lenoir’s invention was not very efficient, because of the loud noise it made, the great amount of fuel it used and the heat it created. It was the first internal combustion engine and a great effort to Otto, who was already very interested in all types of engines. Otto spent a lot of time travelling during his merchant career and learned about the gas-powered engine by Etienne Lenoir during one of his trips. Soon, he started his job as clerk in a grocery store and later on he worked for his brother as a sales representative at his textile business. His mother would have preferred sending him to a technical school after some years, but due to the failed German revolution in 1848, she decided for her son to become a merchant.

Otto was the son of a farmer and innkeeper family, his father also had the post office of the village. Despite the fact that Nikolaus Otto’s father died quite early, he was able to receive a decent school education.

However, German courts did not hold his patent to cover all in-cylinder compression engines or even the four-stroke cycle, and after this decision, in-cylinder compression became universal and the principle of Otto’s engine still is the general principle for engines today. On May 9, 1876, German inventor Nikolaus Otto working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started the world’s first internal-combustion engine that efficiently burned fuel directly in a piston chamber.

3 hp 4 stroke internal combustion engine