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Timeline of motor and engine technology

Timeline of motor and engine Technology

1698 - Thomas Savery builds a steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines

1712 - Thomas Newcomen builds a Newcomen steam engine for pumping water out of mines

1769 - James Watt patents his first improved steam engine

1816 - Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine

1821 - Michael Faraday builds an electric motor

1837 - First American patent for an electric motor ()

1877 - Nikolaus Otto patents a four-stroke internal combustion engine ()

1888 - Nikola Tesla patents the induction motor ()

1892 - Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine ()

1929 - Felix Wankel patents the Wankel engine ()

1937 - Hans von Ohain builds a gas turbine

1960s - alternators replace generators on automobile engines

1970s - electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines

1980s - electronically controlled ignition improved to reduce pollution

1980s - electronic fuel injection appears on gasoline automobile engines