Explosion engine
In an explosion engine, power is generated with the help of an explosion or detonation . The first practical implementation of this engine was made by the German designer Brackenburg in 1836, who powered a car using the hydrogen method. Because of the dangerousness of the hydrogen in the container, this engine could not prevail. In colloquial language, internal combustion engines were also incorrectly referred to in the past .
Christiaan Huygens demonstrated such an engine to a minister Louis XIV in 1673 . It was an atmospheric machine. A hot combustion gas mixture was introduced into a cylinder by means of a black powder charge. During the subsequent cooling of the gas, a weight could be lifted by means of a piston in the cylinder. The project failed because this process could not be repeated periodically with the resources at the time.
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix R. Paturi: Chronicle of technology . Weltbild, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-134-1 , p. 216 .