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MCL345 L3 History Lenoir Cycle
MCL345 L3 History Lenoir Cycle
Krishnakant Agrawal
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Classroom Lecture 3
IC engine as a start-up
• Concepts started floating around in 1700s and early 1800s
Atmospheric engines firing gunpowder and creating Huygen's gunpowder
vacuum to lift load engine (1680 AD)
• Struggle to burn whale oil, coal gas, mineral oils, coal etc.
• Necessary complementary technology
Discovery of crude oil in Pennsylvania in 1859
• Rapid development curve after 1860
Improved hydrocarbons and IC engine development
• The first real breakthrough
Four stroke cycle prototype by Otto in 1876
• Big push from supportive technology
Pneumatic Rubber tyre by Dunlop in 1888
• Challenging status quo
Electricity and Steam were state of art for automobile,
completely displaced by IC engines by early 1900s
The first automotive engine by Lenoir (1860)
• Deutz patent ran till 1886, after discovery of an earlier patent by Rochas
in 1861 → ~50 companies started making such engines
• Foundation of automotive industry was laid using this ``low cost, low
weight, fuel efficient`` engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqghGs25cg