Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1981).
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Nicolaus Otto
Nicolaus August Otto was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine. The Association of German Engineers (VDI) created DIN standard 1940 which says "Otto Engine: internal combustion engine in which the ignition of the compressed fuel-air mixture is initiated by a timed spa…
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business · Inventor of the internal combustion engine · engineer · inventor · entrepreneur · industrialist · design engineer · mechanical technician · also Nicolaus Otto, Nicolaus August Otto, Otto
Born 10 June 1832 · Died 26 January 1891 · Q75782
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1936· 1 entry
Professor Nagël, head of the Association of German Engineers, decreed that DIN Standard 1940 specify that "Ottomotor" applies to all engines that draw in a fuel mix, compress it and ignite it by special device, thus repl
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1891· 1 entry
Died 1891-01-26.
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1882· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (1882).
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Otto received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Würzburg
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1864· 1 entry
Otto sought investors to fund his research
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1862· 1 entry
Otto worked for Carl Mertens in order to continue work on his engine
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-06-10.
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