Nikolaus Otto

Four-stroke motorcycle engines One of the most important landmarks in engine design comes from Nicolaus Otto who in 1876 created an effective gas motor engine. Nikolaus Otto built the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine called the "Otto Cycle Engine," and when he finished his engine, he built it into a motorcycle.

Nikolaus Otto was born on June 14, 1832 in Holzhausen, Germany. Otto's first job was as an itinerant merchant who sells tea, coffee, and sugar. He soon developed an interest in new technology today and start experimenting with building a four-stroke engine (inspired by Lenoir two-stroke gas-powered internal combustion engines). Having met Eugen Langen, a technician and owner of sugar mills, Otto quits his job, and in 1864, the duo began the world's first engine manufacturing company NA Otto & Cie. (now DEUTZ AG, Cologne). In 1867, the couple is given a Gold Medal at the Paris World Exhibition for atmospheric gas engine that was built a year earlier.

In May 1876, Nikolaus Otto built the first practical four-stroke piston cycle internal combustion engine. He continued to develop a four-stroke engines after 1876 and he considered his work completed after the discovery of the first magneto ignition system for low voltage ignition in 1884.

Otto's patent (see picture below) is inverted in 1886 to support a patent granted to Alphonse Beau de Roaches for four-stroke engines. However, Otto built a working engine, while the Roaches' design on paper. On October 23, 1877, another patent for the gas motor engine issued to Nicolaus Otto, and Francis and William Crossley.

Nikolaus Otto
Nikolaus Otto invented the gas motor. An engineer and experiments, Nikolaus Otto discovered the first practical alternative to the steam engine in 1876 - the first four-stroke internal combustion engine. He called it the "Otto Cycle Engine," and soon after he finished his engine, he built it into a motorcycle.

First atmospheric engine was completed in May 1867. 5 years later he was followed by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, and together they created the idea of ​​four-stroke cycle or Otto cycle.

First created in 1876, did not it is a movement up or down on the piston cylinder. Otto made no valid patent in 1886 when it was discovered that another inventor, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, had made the principle of rotation 4 is not on the leaflet which was published alone. According to recent historical studies, the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patented the first version of the efficient work of the internal combustion engine in London in 1854 (patent number 1072). Otto engine in many ways the least inspired of the discovery

Nikolaus Otto died at age 59, on January 26, 1891, in Cologne.