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French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first internal combustion engines.
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Claude Niépce
French inventor (1764–1828)
Claude Félix Abel Niépce was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated Nicéphore Niépce. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal combustion engine and died there. His brother's later successful development of photography has…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor (1765–1833)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pyréolophore
Early internal combustion engine
The Pyréolophore was an early internal combustion engine and the first made to power a boat. It was invented in the early 19th century in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, by the Niépce brothers: Nicéphore and Claude. In 1807 the brothers ran a prototype internal combustion engine, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Internal combustion engine
Engine in which fuel combusts with an oxidizer
An internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high-temperature and high-pressure…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)