Nicolaus August Otto’s engine would run better than it ever had before. Born in early June of 1832, Otto’s path to inventor infamy would be an interesting one. He had left school at 16 to work ...

1877: The U.S. Patent Office grants German engineer Nicolaus August Otto a patent for an “improvement in gas-motor engines.” Internal combustion’s time — and timing — have come. More ...

AMONG the names of the hundreds of inventors through whose individual efforts the internal combustion engine has reached its present state of efficiency, that of Nikolaus August Otto will always ...

Despite technological revolutions in many other spheres of life, motorcycles are relatively the same since Nicolaus August Otto invented the four-stroke engine, John Wheeler argues. Trawling ...