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Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir

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Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir of Belgium built this experimental vehicle in 1862. It reached a speed of 3 kms/hour with one of the, first sucessful internal combustion engines. First model used hydrogen from water and most ran off of Town Gas.

Lenoir 1862

Lenoir 1862

Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir of Belgium built this experimental vehicle in 1862. It reached a speed of 3 kms/hour with the, or one of the, first sucessful internal combustion engines that ran on "Town Gas" also called Coal Gas. Town gas typically would be about 51% hydrogen, 15% carbon monoxide, 21% methane, 10% carbon dioxide and nitrogen. It was a 2 stroke engine. Later about 400 to 500 of the Lenoir engines were built and sold.

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