A life well lived: Tracing 120 years of the combustion engine

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By the end of the 1900s, the engine’s ability had transformed beyond all recognition, making this era the undisputed greatest as far as development is concerned. Consider that as soon as 1903, Mercedes produced the 9.3-litre Simplex, a car capable of 70mph – five times the UK speed limit at the time of its arrival. Or that in 1907, the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost drove 15,000 miles with just one stop to open a fuel tap that had shaken itself shut on some impossibly bumpy unpaved road. Thanks almost exclusively to engine development, this was the decade in which the car came of age.

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Karl Benz , Nicolaus Otto , , கார்ல் பென்ஸ் , நிக்கோலஸ் ஒட்தோ ,