Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of internal combustion

engines.

Los orígenes de los motores son muy remotos. Especialmente si se consideran los inicios
o precedentes de algunos elementos constitutivos de los motores, imprescindibles para su
funcionaminto como tales.
Considerados como máquinas completas y funcionales, y productoras de energía
mecánica, hay algunos ejemplos de motores antes del siglo XIX.

Theoretically, the history of the internal combustion engine starts

after the steam engine invention The origins of the engines are very remote.

Especially if you consider the beginnings or precedents of some constituent elements of the engines,
essential for their operation as such.
Considered as complete and functional machines, and producers of mechanical energy, there are some
examples of engines before the nineteenth century.

we can found the firsts evidences of this emerging technology in the Han Dinasty in China, in
the Roman Empire or the Byzantinne Empire, between 200 BCE and the 9th century. Or
inventors like Al-Jazari in the 13th century or Leonardo Da Vinci.

The first successful trails starts in the 19th century.

In 1807 Nicéphore Niépce installed his "moss, coal-dust and resin"

fueled Pyréolophore internal combustion engine in a boat and powered up the
river Saône in France. A patent was subsequently granted by Emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte on 20 July 1807.

In 1807 Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built an internal combustion engine
powered by a hydrogen and oxygen mixture, and ignited by electric spark. (See
1780s: Alessandro Volta above.)[8]

In 1823 : Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied
industrially,

 1838: A patent was granted to William Barnett, UK patent no. 7615 April 1838.
According to Dugald Clerk, this was the first recorded use of in-cylinder compression.[11]
 1853–1857: Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci invented and patented an
engine using the free-piston principle in an atmospheric two cycle engine.[12][13]
1856 Pietro Benini realized a working prototype of the Italian engine supplying 5 HP.

The innovations arrived from 1860.

 1860: Belgian Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822–1900) produced a gas-fired internal
combustion engine similar in appearance to a horizontal double-acting steam engine,
with cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, and flywheel in which the gas essentially took
 the place of the steam. This was the first internal combustion engine to be produced in
numbers.
 1876: Nikolaus Otto, working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, patented
the compressed charge, four-stroke engine.[16] The Germancourts, however, 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.
 1878: Dugald Clerk designed the first two-stroke engine with in-cylinder
compression. He patented it in England in 1881.
 Karl Benz designed and built his own four-stroke engine that was used in
his automobile, which was developed in 1885, patented in 1886, and became the
first automobile in series production.
 1892: Rudolf Diesel developed the first compressed charge, compression ignition
engine

 1908: Comienza la fabricación del automóvil Ford T, con un motor de 4 cilindros.35

Between world wars

1903. Los hermanos Orville (1871-1948) y Wilbur (1867-1912) realizan el primer vuelo
con motor con su Kitty Hawk que usa un motor de combustión interna

1947: Primer motor Ferrari V12

1957: En la Zona Franca de Barcelona se inició la producción del SEAT 600

 In the last years of the xix century an the begining o fthe xx, se hacen nuevas innovaciones
a los motoras ya esxistentes como Motor Wärtsilä or 2004: Hyper-X first scramjet to
maintain altitude

As everyone knows, and you as a mechanic better than anyone, the various economic,
oil and ecological crises have caused ups and downs in the industry that fortunately
has always found solutions and alternatives to move forward. This has caused much
experimentation that has resulted in the evolution of the engine with hybrid and electric
technologies to find a solution to the pollution of the planet, however the internal
combustion propellant continues to survive all this.