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Otto cycle

Nikolaus August Otto was a traveling salesman for a grocery concern. In his travels, he
encountered the internal combustion engine built in Paris by Belgian expatriate Jean
Joseph Etienne Lenoir. In 1860, Lenoir successfully created a double-acting engine that
ran on illuminating gas at 4% efficiency. The 18 litre Lenoir Engine produced only
2 horsepower. The Lenoir engine ran on illuminating gas made from coal, which had
been developed in Paris by Philip Lebon.[2]

In testing a replica of the Lenoir engine in 1861, Otto became aware of the effects of
compression on the fuel charge. In 1862, Otto attempted to produce an engine to
improve on the poor efficiency and reliability of the Lenoir engine. He tried to create an
engine that would compress the fuel mixture prior to ignition, but failed as that engine
would run no more than a few minutes prior to its destruction. Many other engineers
were trying to solve the problem, with no success.[2]

In 1864, Otto and Eugen Langen founded the first internal combustion engine
production company, NA Otto and Cie (NA Otto and Company). Otto and Cie
succeeded in creating a successful atmospheric engine that same year.[2] The factory
ran out of space and was moved to the town of Deutz, Germany in 1869, where the
company was renamed to Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik AG (The Deutz Gas Engine
Manufacturing Company).[2] In 1872, Gottlieb Daimler was technical director
and Wilhelm Maybach was the head of engine design. Daimler was a gunsmith who had
worked on the Lenoir engine. By 1876, Otto and Langen succeeded in creating the first
internal combustion engine that compressed the fuel mixture prior to combustion for far
higher efficiency than any engine created to this time.

Daimler and Maybach left their employ at Otto and Cie and developed the first high-
speed Otto engine in 1883. In 1885, they produced the first automobile to be equipped
with an Otto engine. The Daimler Reitwagen used a hot-tube ignition system and the
fuel known as Ligroin to become the world's first vehicle powered by an internal
combustion engine. It used a four-stroke engine based on Otto's design. The following
year, Karl Benz produced a four-stroke engined automobile that is regarded as the first
car.[3]

In 1884, Otto's company, then known as Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz (GFD), developed


electric ignition and the carburetor. In 1890, Daimler and Maybach formed a company
known as Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. Today, that company is Daimler-Benz.

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