François Isaac de Rivaz
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François Isaac de Rivaz was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807.
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François Isaac de Rivaz was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle - "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile".
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Lived 1752 to 1828 · aged 75
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