![]() ![]() ![]() The discovery of the distillation of gas from coal and the demonstration, by Murdock in 1792, of the application of coal gas for lighting purposes roused new interest in the subject. The same idea was suggested by Huygens in 1680, but experiments made by him and later by Denis Papinwere not attended by success and were abandoned, though they are interesting as representing the first actual attempts at the building of internal-combustion engines.Ī long period of inaction followed. The idea was similar to that expressed in the early forms of the steam engine, but Hautefeuille does not appear to have preformed any actual experiments. ![]() The Abbé Hautefeuille described in 1678, an engine for raising water, in which the motive power was obtained by burning gunpowder in a cylinder and cooling the remaining gases with water. ![]()
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