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Timeline of motor and engine technology * (c. 30–70 AD) – Hero of Alexandria describes the first documented steam-powered device, the ''aeolipile''. * 13th century - Chinese chronicles wrote about a solid rocket motor used in warfare * 1698 – Thomas Savery builds a steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines. * 1712 – Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines. * 1769 – James Watt patents his first improved steam engine. * 1806 – François Isaac de Rivaz invented a hydrogen powered engine, the first successful internal combustion engine. * 1807 - Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude build a fluid piston internal combustion engine, the Pyréolophore and use it to power a boat up the river Saône. * 1816 – Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine, and what we now call a "regenerator". * 1821 – Michael Faraday builds an electricity-powered motor. * 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment. * 1837 – First American patent for an electric motor (). * 1850 – The first explicit statement of the first and second law of thermodynamics, given by Rudolf Clausius. * 1877 – Nikolaus Otto patents a four-stroke internal combustion engine (). * 1882 – James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine, now common in some hybrid vehicles. * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the first supercharger. * 1886 – Hot bulb engine was established by Herbert Akroyd Stuart, Gottlieb Daimler invents the Petrol engine. * 1888 – An AC induction motor is featured in a paper published by Galileo Ferraris and is patented in the U.S. by Nikola Tesla.〔(Bill Drury, Control Techniques Drives and Controls Handbook, page xiv )〕 * 1892 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (). * 1899 – Ferdinand Porsche creates the first hybrid vehicle. * 1903 – (The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices ) was published by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky * 1905 – Alfred Büchi patents the turbocharger. * 1913 – René Lorin invents the ramjet. * 1915 – Leonard Dyer invents a six-stroke engine, now known as the Crower six-stroke engine named after his reinventor Bruce Crower. * 1926 - Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. * 1929 – Felix Wankel patents the Wankel rotary engine (). * Late 1930s – Hans von Ohain and Frank Whittle separately build pioneering gas turbine engines intended for aircraft propulsion, leading to the pioneering turbojet powered flights in 1939 Germany and 1941 England. * 1939 – The BMW company's BMW 801 aviation radial engine pioneers the use of an early form of an engine control unit, the ''Kommandogerät''. * 1940s – Ralph Miller patents his Miller cycle engine. * 1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine. * 1966 – RD-0410 nuclear thermal rocket engine was ground-tested. * 1960s – alternators replace generators on automobile engines. * 1970s – electronically controlled ignition appears in automobile engines. * 1975 – Catalytic converters are first widely introduced on production automobiles in the US to comply with tightening EPA regulations on auto exhaust. * 1980s – electronically controlled ignition improved to reduce pollution. * 1980s – electronic fuel injection appears on gasoline automobile engines. * 1989 – The Bajulaz Six-Stroke Engine was invented by the Bajulaz S A company, based in Geneva, Switzerland; it has and . * 1990s – Hybrid vehicles that run on an internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electric motor charged by regenerative braking. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of motor and engine technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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