20th July 1807: The world's first internal combustion engine is patented in France

[@vancemccarthy2554]

Couldn't find a use for it. Technology ahead of its time.

[@reypolice5231]

This man was a genius well ahead of his time.

[@nikkielmo11]

Your telling me that the person to invent the internal combustion engine also invented the photograph...

[@mackenziecoulanges739]

I had the same reaction😂

[@Jallamedalla]

Was the engine working like a pulse jet engine?

[@nunyabiz2016]

Wow that's a shame they couldn't monetize. Brilliant though! Great vid!

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

Genius. Why doesn't everyone know his name???

[@jawwwp428]

They know about him in photography

[@stanleykassim2839]

A lot of geniuses were never recognised, such as: Micheal Faraday, Allessandro Volta, Felix Hoffman, Gottfried Leibniz, and many more. The reason for this is because there was no profit to be made publicising them. This is what caused the Edison/Tesla debacle. Its all about public opinion, not science (or how much they made the world a better place with their discoveries and inventions). Please do yourself a favour and research these names that I put down if you do not know them. The media only publicises what people will spend money on to read. Nobody cares about the science.

[@DSAK55]

@@stanleykassim2839 Publish or Perish

[@aidanmakinster922]

So basically this was the first jet boat.

[@wololo10]

He built the first engine end did the first Pic? Holy shit

[@josega6338]

Wrong! Before that, Huyghens built an ICE, powered by GunPowder, installed to provide water for the french Versailles Palace Gardens. Toilets did not exist there, actually, they got the idea of forks to eat, and of a public sewage system, from Poland, they had forgot the Roman cloacae, those visiting Versailles to obtain positions or contacts from state evacuated dejections on the gardens, that became stinkink places. Source: 'The romance of engines', T Suzuki, SAE.

[@lovemyself217]

So the first internal combustion engine is a pulse jet engine?

[@themask706]

Yet again no story behind the idea of this invention that changed the world. Why ?

[@brembobremse3690]

Huge pop pop boat

[@davidaustin2172]

Wow, an internal combustion that runs on fuel from plants! Must be very low pollutions! Anyone whose interested, this principle is used today on TOYS! Yep, that’s right. Check out any video on 'pop pop' boats.

[@nizzurtmontalgizzert3337]

Robert Street in 1794 england first internal conbustion engine

[@ambientsounds6412]

I believe that was the first steam engine, which is an external combustion engine, not internal

[@kenkaneki9138]

@@ambientsounds6412 The steam engine is much earlier than that by a whole century.

[@oswaldjacobs1882]

it was actually patented in 1794

[@PradeepKumar-od1uw]

😮😢

[@TheFlick175]

More in common with a gas turbine engine

[@RBFR01]

shut up I want to see it running

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Exactly