Name: The Internal Combustion Engine: Where did it come from? | Stuff of Genius
Uploaded: 2017-04-01T08:30:38.000Z
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- [Narrator] Behold, the internal combustion engine.

Meet Nikolaus Otto, born in Germany in 1832.

Nikolaus wasn't the star of his high school.

and worked in a series of different industries.

Nikolaus caught wind of a coal-gas engine

First of all, gas was expensive at the time.

Second, the engine was relatively inefficient

and required a lot of water for cooling purposes.

Yet, Nikolaus saw potential in the concept.

First, Nikolaus built a two-stroke engine

that ran on liquid gas and used a carburetor.

In 1876, Nikolaus went on to build a four-stroke engine.

First, the engine mixes fuel with air in the intake phase.

The engine expels exhaust in the last stage.

the engine uses a series of small explosions

for most other internal combustion engines,