<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (August 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (August 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of internal combustion engines . In 1791, John Barber developed a turbine . In 1794 Thomas Mead patented a gas engine . Also in 1794 Robert Street patented an internal combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel (gasoline), and built an engine around that time . In 1798, John Stevens designed the first American internal combustion engine . In 1807, French engineers Nicéphore (who went on to invent photography) and Claude Niépce ran a prototype internal combustion engine, using controlled dust explosions, the Pyréolophore . This engine powered a boat on the Saône river, France . The same year, the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built an internal combustion engine ignited by electric spark . In 1823, Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially . </P> <P> Father Eugenio Barsanti, an Italian engineer, together with Felice Matteucci of Florence invented the first real internal combustion engine in 1853 . Their patent request was granted in London on June 12, 1854, and published in London's Morning Journal under the title "Specification of Eugene Barsanti and Felix Matteucci, Obtaining Motive Power by the Explosion of Gasses". In 1860, Belgian Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir produced a gas - fired internal combustion engine . In 1864, Nikolaus Otto patented the first atmospheric gas engine . In 1872, American George Brayton invented the first commercial liquid - fueled internal combustion engine . In 1876, Nikolaus Otto, working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, patented the compressed charge, four - cycle engine . In 1879, Karl Benz patented a reliable two - stroke gas engine . In 1892, Rudolf Diesel developed the first compressed charge, compression ignition engine . In 1926, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid - fueled rocket . In 1939, the Heinkel He 178 became the world's first jet aircraft . In 1954 German engineer Felix Wankel patented a "pistonless" engine using an eccentric rotary design . </P>

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