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So steam engines are called external combustion engine why because

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the combustion happens externally wow real ingenious naming their guys but for [Steam engine pulling into a platform]

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real steam engines are powered by fire that turns water into steam outside of

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the engine itself the steam is then funneled into the engine to get those

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Pistons pumping the combination only indirectly creates emotion by boiling [Couple hugging while watching television]

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water to make steam but then internal combustion engines came along

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all hopped up on oil and gas and we're like what kind of loser can't take [Internal combustion engine bouncing around]

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combusting internally well it was an explosive argument well there's no

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single inventor of the ICE plenty of people tinkered for over a century to [Workers tinkering with an internal combustion engine]

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produce an efficient portable and reliable gas engine impressive one of

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the first tries was by a Belgian engineer named Etienne Lenoir in 1860 it [Etienne Lenoir dressed in clothing colored as the Belgian flag]

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was the first to successfully patent an engine that was fueled by burning coal

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gas being Belgian Lenoir himself was fueled by waffles and he didn't stop with [Lenoir eating a waffle]

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the invention of the engine he had the bright idea to attach it to a

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three-wheeled carriage then he had the even brighter idea to call his new [Lenoir attaching an engine to a three-wheeled carriage]

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invention the hippo mobile and we didn't make that up that means you could sink

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brings up so many questions did it involve hippos? was it shaped like a [hippo sinking and riding on the back of a a cart attached to a 3-wheel carriage]

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hippo? we're hippo's Lenoir's favorite animal? well most likely none of the

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above because hippo actually means horse in Greek though it's likely that Lenoir

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was saying that his invention was like a mechanical horse well he was also showing [Lenoir stood beside a mechanical horse]

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off how smart he was for knowing Greek whether Lenoir was thinking of his

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machine as a hippo or a horse one thing was for sure it moved slower than either [Hippo and a horse walking faster than the three-wheel carriage]

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animal this lean mean hippo machine only travelled at four and a half miles an

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hour yep power walking old people at the mall could outpace that thing a couple [Old person walking past the three wheel carriage]

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of years later some german dudes made improvements to Lenoir's design Nikolaus

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Otto built the first four stroke gasoline burning engine which looks a [Nikolaus Otto stood beside a gasoline burning engine]

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lot like modern engines by the 1890s a few cars were being

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manufactured and actually sold and in 1900's 4,000 cars were sold in the US [lots of cars travelling down the highway]

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yeah the roads weren't great probably still full of horse poop and stuff but

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well lack of traffic must have been nice that didn't last long though by 1927 the

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number of cars on the road jumps to 3.7 million oil and the ICE had teamed up [Hulk disguised as an oil barrel and the ICE teaming up together]

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to change the whole world and to curse generation upon generation with a new

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play of road rage [Old woman angry while sat in her car]

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