All Nicolaus Otto wanted to do was make enough money to marry his wife, settle down and begin a career. He was 26 and a seemingly happy young man who was content to sell sugar, rice, coffee or tea ...

There are three fathers of invention when it comes to nearly every car on the road today: Otto, Diesel, and Atkinson. They all had one thing in common—a drive to improve the efficiency of the engines ...

This Otto vertical gas engine was originally inside the cellar of Boyd’s Drug Store, which was in Washington DC. It was used primarily in the 1890s by Dr George W. Boyd before being donated to the ...

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 be ...