biography
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Otto, Nikolaus (August)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–91)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born near Schlangenbad, WC Germany. In 1876 he built the first internal combustion engine that operated on a four-stroke cycle, now generally known as the Otto cycle, even though the principle of four-stroke operation had been patented in 1862 by the French engineer Alphonse Eugène Beau de Rochas (1815–93). |
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