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- Born in Holzhausen, Germany, in 1832, Nicolaus August Otto broke new ground in propulsion when he invented a motor engine that ran on gas as opposed to steam. It was not an easy childhood for Otto. He was the youngest of six children and his father died the same year he was born.
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Jun 18, 2018 · Born: June 14, 1832. Died: January 26, 1891. Otto's Early Days. Nicolaus Otto was born the youngest of six children in Holzhausen, Germany. His father died in 1832 and he began school in 1838. After six years of good performance, he moved to the high school in Langenschwalbach until 1848.
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Apr 1, 2024 · Nikolaus Otto was a German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source. Otto built his first gasoline-powered engine in 1861. Three years later he formed a partnership with the German.
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Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832 – 26 January 1891) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine.
Jun 18, 2019 · Nikolaus Otto was born 14 June 1832 in Holzhausen an der Haide, Germany. After leaving school he gained work as a grocery salesman selling colonial goods, such as coffee, tea and sugar.
Nikolaus Otto. Despite a lack of technical training, Nikolaus August Otto (1832-1891) had the ingenuity to make the first practical internal combustion engine. He later devised the four-stroke engine, known as the Otto cycle, which was widely used for automobile and other motors.
May 12, 2022 · Otto was the youngest of six children in a family of farmers and innkeepers, so his life wasn't exactly easy in the early days. He grew up as a half-orphan after losing his father in the year of his birth.
Born in 1832 in Germany, Nicolaus August Otto invented the first practical alternative to the steam engine - the first successful four-stroke cycle engine. Otto built his first four-stroke engine in 1861.
