![]() ![]() Otto spent a lot of time travelling during his merchant career and learned about the gas-powered engine by Etienne Lenoir during one of his trips. ![]() Soon, he started his job as clerk in a grocery store and later on he worked for his brother as a sales representative at his textile business. His mother would have preferred sending him to a technical school after some years, but due to the failed German revolution in 1848, she decided for her son to become a merchant. Otto was the son of a farmer and innkeeper family, his father also had the post office of the village. Despite the fact that Nikolaus Otto’s father died quite early, he was able to receive a decent school education. However, German courts did not hold his patent to cover all in-cylinder compression engines or even the four-stroke cycle, and after this decision, in-cylinder compression became universal and the principle of Otto’s engine still is the general principle for engines today. ![]() On May 9, 1876, German inventor Nikolaus Otto working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started the world’s first internal-combustion engine that efficiently burned fuel directly in a piston chamber. ![]()
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