(England) In 1798, John Stevens built the first American internal combustion engine. (US) In 1807, François Issac de Rivaz built "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile." ...

The internal combustion engine is dying out. Electric and hybrid vehicles are gradually—and in some parts of the world, rapidly—edging out sales of conventional, non-electrified gas-guzzlers.

Standage said that Benz used bicycle parts to build a vehicle around an internal combustion engine ... and released in Japan in 1997, was the world's first mass-produced hybrid car and was ...

One of the first practical ... the age of internal combustion. If circumstances hadn't been such that consumers and planners turned from electric vehicles in the early days, the world might ...

In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal ... just that the world changed and the reciprocating-piston internal combustion proved ...

Built during an era when the American West was still relatively wild, the Sterand Loco was one of the first bespoke promotional ... the company built internal combustion engines for many of ...

That spacing isn't coincidental—it was the distance that a steam locomotive could ... well as the advantages that internal combustion engines possess. During World War I, the government ...

Another Scot, Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, built a prototype electric locomotive ... battle before World War II, and most electric-car makers had either converted to internal combustion or gone ...

Steam had been a viable power source in locomotion for as much as a century before the Motorwagen, and internal combustion ... model locomotive. In 1832, William Sturgeon invented the first ...