Timeline of motor and engine technology

• 1806 – François Isaac de Rivaz invented a hydrogen powered engine, the first successful internal combustion engine.
• 1807 – Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude build a fluid piston internal combustion engine, the Pyréolophore and use it to power a boat up the river Saône.
• 1816 – Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine, and what we now call a "regenerator".{{Cite web |title=Robert Stirling {{!}} Heat engine, Renewable energy, Air engine {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Stirling |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Stirling engine |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100533419 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en }}
• 1821 – Michael Faraday builds an electricity-powered motor.
• 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment.
• 1837 – First American patent for an electric motor ({{US patent|132}}).
• 1850 – The first explicit statement of the first and second law of thermodynamics, given by Rudolf Clausius.{{Cite web |title=Rudolf Clausius {{!}} Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Entropy {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Clausius |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1860 – Lenoir 2 cycle engine{{Cite web |date=2024-07-31 |title=Étienne Lenoir {{!}} Internal Combustion Engine, Automobile, Gas Engine {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Etienne-Lenoir |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1872 – Brayton Engine
• 1877 – Nicolaus Otto patents a four-stroke internal combustion engine ({{US patent|194047}}).{{Cite web |date=2024-06-06 |title=Nikolaus Otto {{!}} Internal Combustion, Automobile Engines & Inventor {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikolaus-Otto |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1882 – James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine, now common in some hybrid vehicles.
• 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the first supercharger.
• 1886 – Hot-bulb engine was established by Herbert Akroyd Stuart, Gottlieb Daimler invents the Petrol engine.{{Cite web |title=Gottlieb Daimler {{!}} Automotive Pioneer, Internal Combustion Engine & Industrialist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gottlieb-Daimler |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1888 – An AC induction motor is featured in a paper published by Galileo Ferraris and is patented in the U.S. by Nikola Tesla.[https://books.google.com/books?id=vDQHzeEmSfUC&dq=tesla+Ferraris+induction&pg=PR14 Bill Drury, Control Techniques Drives and Controls Handbook, page xiv]
• 1892 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine ({{US patent|608845}}).{{Cite news |date=2016-12-19 |title=How Rudolf Diesel's engine changed the world |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38302874 |access-date=2024-08-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
• 1899 – Ferdinand Porsche creates the Lohner–Porsche, the first hybrid vehicle.

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• 1903 – [http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/dorev-knigi/ciolkovskiy/issl-03st.html The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices] was published by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
• 1905 – Alfred Büchi patents the turbocharger.{{Cite web |title=Turbochargers – USC Viterbi School of Engineering |url=https://illumin.usc.edu/turbochargers/ |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=illumin.usc.edu}}
• 1913 – René Lorin invents the ramjet.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-12 |title=Ramjet {{!}} Supersonic, Jet Engines, Propulsion {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/ramjet |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1915 – Leonard Dyer invents a six-stroke engine, now known as the Crower six-stroke engine named after his reinventor Bruce Crower.
• 1926 – Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-17 |title=95 Years Ago: Goddard's First Liquid-Fueled Rocket - NASA |url=https://www.nasa.gov/history/95-years-ago-goddards-first-liquid-fueled-rocket/ |access-date=2024-08-02 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=seanm |date=2012-09-14 |title=Robert H. Goddard: American Rocket Pioneer |url=https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/robert-h-goddard-american-rocket-pioneer |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Smithsonian Institution Archives}}
• 1929 – Felix Wankel patents the Wankel rotary engine ({{US patent|2988008}}).{{Cite web |title=Wankel engine {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/Wankel-engine |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• Late 1930s – Hans von Ohain{{Cite web |title=Jet Engines |url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects/jet-airplanes/planes.html |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=cs.stanford.edu}} and Frank Whittle{{Cite web |title=Sir Frank Whittle {{!}} Jet engine pioneer, RAF officer, engineer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Whittle |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} separately build pioneering gas turbine engines intended for aircraft propulsion, leading to the pioneering turbojet powered flights in 1939 Germany and 1941 England.
• 1939 – The BMW company's BMW 801 aviation radial engine pioneers the use of an early form of an engine control unit, the Kommandogerät.
• 1940s – Ralph Miller patents his Miller cycle engine.
• 1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine.{{Citation |title=Wankel rotary engine |encyclopedia=World Encyclopedia |date=2004 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001/acref-9780199546091-e-12309 |access-date=2024-08-02 |publisher=Philip's |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-954609-1|url-access=subscription }}
• 1957 – Rambler Rebel announced [http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/restoration/restoration-tips/1957_amc_rambler_rebel Electrojector] electronic fuel injection option, however no production models were offered with the option.
• 1964 – Ion engine invented.{{Cite web |last=Webb-Mack |first=Zoë |title=A Brief History of Ion Propulsion |url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/723/a-brief-history-of-ion-propulsion |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=NASA Solar System Exploration}}
• 1966 – RD-0410 nuclear thermal rocket engine was ground-tested.
• 1960s – alternators replace generators on automobile engines.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-12 |title=Alternator {{!}} Generator, Voltage Regulator & AC Power {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/alternator |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1970s – electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines.
• 1975 – Catalytic converters are first widely introduced on production automobiles in the US to comply with tightening EPA regulations on auto exhaust.
• 1980s – electronically controlled ignition improved to reduce pollution.
• 1980s – electronic fuel injection appears on gasoline automobile engines.
• 1989 – The Bajulaz Six-Stroke Engine was invented by the Bajulaz S A company, based in Geneva, Switzerland; it has {{US patent|4809511}} and {{US patent|4513568}}.
• 1990s – Hybrid vehicles that run on an internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electric motor charged by regenerative braking.

• Timeline of heat engine technology for a view of the human understanding of the interchangeability of work and heat.

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