Innovative Tuesday: The Invention of the Internal Combustion Engine

     Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of Nations Made Fun! I'll be your host, Mr. Nations, your tour guide to this massive world we all call home! Today on Innovative Tuesday, we'll be taking a look at the internal combustion engine, otherwise known as the gasoline engine, Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get straight into it!

     Many scientists contributed to the invention of the internal combustion engine. Most of them are listed in a previous post, in which I talk about an older form of engines, steam engines. In 1794, Robert Street patented his invention of an early internal combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel (petroleum). 

     Father Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci invented the first real engine in 1854. The patent request was granted in London and it was revolutionary at the time to have a revolutionary engine to use on anything viable to have an engine fitted to it.

     Modern engines are efficient and powerful compared to the slow and clunky engines that existed in the olden days. Almost any form of transportation that you ride today requires and engine in one way or another. Engines are an extremely part of society as we know it.

     Fun Facts: 

• This fact is slightly off topic, but humans could be considered as engines. The definition of an engine is a machine that turns energy into motion. Humans eat food for energy and convert that energy into motion.
• Engines require oxygen to function.
• Engines get very hot, thus resulting in the need for coolant, which is constantly pumped into the machine to keep it cool.

     The first internal combustion engine:

     

     Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_internal_combustion_engine

     https://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-internal-combustion-engines/