Alternatives for Gasoline Internal-Combustion Engine
An internal-combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of the fuel takes place within cylinder (see fig 1). An internal combustion engine has one or more cylinders in which the process of combustion takes place, converting energy released from the rapid burning of a fuel-air mixture into mechanical energy. The first person to experiment with such an engine was the Dutch Physicist Christian Huygens , in 1680. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler constructed what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine: small and fast, with a vertical cylinder, it used gasoline injected through a carburetor. In 1889 Daimler introduced a four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two cylinders arranged in a V, having a much higher power-to-weight ratio; with the exception of electric starting, which would not be introduced until 1924. Most modern gasoline engines are descended from Daimler's engines. The......
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