GK
INVENTIONS
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1862
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1909
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1803
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1922
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1862 Lenoir built the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine. He had adapted his engine to run on liquid fuel and with his vehicle made a 6-mile (10-kilometre) trip that required two to three hours.
Detailed explanation-2: -Engineer Nicolaus August Otto invented the first practical alternative to the steam engine. Born in Holzhausen, Germany, Otto built his first gas engine in 1861. Then, in partnership with German industrialist Eugen Langen, they improved the design and won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1867.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler, with the help of Wilhelm Maybach, developed the forerunner of the modern gas engine by advancing Nicolaus Otto’s oil-powered design. Adapting the engine to a stagecoach, Daimler successfully designed the world’s first four-wheeled automobile.