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Antique Engine Database
Otto Gas Engine Works
While some doubt may exist concerning many historical aspects of the gas engine industry, the historical aspects of the gas engine industry, the contribution of N.A. Otto to the art ramins unchallenged. beginning in the 1860s, Otto started on an odyssey that consumed his entire life from that point forward. His first atmospheric engine was notes by Engineering of London in the issue of May 17, 1897. Almost overnight, every technical journal of the industralized world took note of the Otto engine developments.
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Otto teamed up with Eugen Langen during the early 1860s. Their inverted vertical atmospheric engine virtually destroyed any interest in Lenoir’s noncompression engine previously introduced. With the formation of N.A. Otto & Cie. on March 31, 1864, the world’s first company devoted exclusively to building internal combustioin engines was organized. Otto’s developments finally led to introduction of the Otto Sinlent engine in 1876–the “Silent” was undoubtedly more than a figure of speech, since sompared to the noisy atmospheric engine, this new horizontal, four-cycle style was ndeed “silent”. Within a year of tis introduction, the Otto Silent was in America.
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