The Inventor

Nicolaus otto

This German figure is known as an inventor of the 4-stroke engine or combustion engine to drive the vehicle.

Nikolaus Otto dropped out of school, but the discovery of Nicolaus Otto is very important because it has a major impact on the history of human life.

His full name is Nikolaus August Otto. He was born in a small village in Holzhausen, Germany on June 10, 1829. His father, Phillip Wilhelm Otto, worked as a postmaster at Otto's birthplace. Shortly after Otto was born, his father died. Her mother later took on the role of raising Otto herself.

His mother later sent Nikolaus Otto to school and he was very accomplished. His mother then planned for Otto to continue his education in engineering.

INVENTORS WHO DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL

The outbreak of the German Revolution in 1848 caused the economy to collapse. The family's difficult economic conditions led his mother to want the young Otto to become a merchant instead of continuing his education.

Otto, who was studying in high school, had to leave school. Out of school, Otto got a job as a clerk at a grocery store near the German city of Frankurt.

Or the help of his brother Wilhelm, Otto became a salesman. Otto was a distributor of groceries to a number of grocery stores along Germany's western border.

Otto's journey as a salesman led him to the German border with France and Belgium. He even reached Cologne, Germany in 1859. There he met Anna Gossi who later became his wife.

HISTORY OF 4-STROKE MACHINES

In 1860, Jean Lenoir built the world's first internal combustion engine, which was then mass-produced. But the Lenoir engine uses gas power. Otto then saw the potential of the Lenoir engine. He considered that the future development of the internal combustion engine would depend on its fuel source. And it will be very useful if you use liquid fuel.

Otto designed a carburetor to make the engine move. Together with his brother, Otto filed a patent in 1861. But the development of the engine carried out by Otto took a long time.

This is due to his lack of development funding as well as his lack of knowledge of the machine. But Otto's machine will surpass the one invented by Lenoir.

In 1861, Otto commissioned an instrument maker named Michael Zons to design a combustion engine instrument like the one made by Lenoir. Later, Otto conducted a series of early experiments with the machine. The purpose is to reduce the shock load of the piston at the beginning of combustion.

In 1862, Zons and Otto built a four-cylinder engine while Lenoir was only two-cylinder. However, it failed after several attempts.

Not long after she was together, Eugena Langen built a small factory. He also perfected his design. In 1867 the machine invented by Nikolaus Otto was awarded a medal at the World Fair in Paris.

RICH FROM COMBUSTION ENGINES

After the award, the sales of the machine shot up and the company's profits were abundant. In 1872, Otto hired Gottlieb Daimler, a brilliant engineer. Daimler is known to have a lot of experience in factory management to facilitate the production of its machines.

Otto's combustion engine made him rich. But on the other hand, he remains ambitious to create an engine with four thrusts that compresses the mixture of oil and air before combustion which will be an incomparable improvement of the Lenoir engine.

The 4-stroke engine was built in May 1876. A year later, Otto obtained his patent. The 4-stroke engine sold 30,000 machines in 10 years.

Otto's 4-Stroke engine was once a thing in 1886. A Frenchman named Alponse Beau de Rochas had a similar idea in 1862 and had patented it.

However, he was not very influential because his invention was never marketed. More than that the findings he never appeared as a model. Apart from that, Otto never got inspiration from Rochas. That, instead of making Otto's patent lost but the engine market is increasingly rampant and certainly has made him richer.

INVENTORS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

A type of machine used by millions of people made from then until now to drive cars and other vehicles. The combustion process on the inside of the engine created by Otto is a result of careful and brilliant thinking. This type of engine was originally used to drive motorboats and motorcycles.

The machine is also commonly used in various industries. It was inseparable from the invention of the airplane by the Wright Brothers. In reality, all aircraft were propelled with an incendiary that worked according to Otto's design.

But the most important of what is important in its use is its use in car engines that until now we can feel the benefits. Within fifteen years of Otto's creation of the 4-stroke engine, two different inventors were Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, each individually makes a car that is practical and sold in the market.

Various types of machines have since been used by people. In the present, we can see mobi machines that use electric batteries. But clearly, millions of cars in the last century 90% use a 4-stroke engine which is the result of the invention of Nikolaus Otto.

NIKOLAUS OTTO DIED

Nicholas August Otto died in 1891 in Cologne, Germany. The inventor who changed the world left behind a wife named Anna Gossi and a child named Gustav Otto. He died in a rakay-rich state thanks to his invention machine.