Galéria
Denis Papin 1647 - 1712
Denis Papin was an assistant of Huygens. Huygens showed him the gunpowder-engine. The power of this...
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) A French scientist, physicist and military engineer. He...
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James Watt (1736-1819)
James Watt (1736-1819) A Scottish instrument maker, mechanical engineer and inventor, who...
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Thomas Newcomen (1663 – 1729)
Thomas Newcomen (1663 – 1729) An English blacksmith, iron merchant, engineer and inventor of the...
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Otto von Guericke
Magdeburg hemispheres 1650, Otto von Guericke, mayor of Magdeburg (Germany), pumped the air out of...
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HERO
Hero The first experiments with steam have been made by Hero of Alexandria 120 A.C. He built many...
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Felix Wankel (1902 - 1988)
Felix Wankel (1902-1988) A German mechanical engineer and inventor renowned for the creation of...
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Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913)
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913) A German engineer and inventor who contributed to the...
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Nikolaus August Otto 1832 - 1891
Otto engine: Mode of operation 1. intake stroke: The air-fuel mixture is sucked in the cylinder...
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