Heat Engine - History

History

Main article: Timeline of heat engine technology See also: History of the internal combustion engine and History of thermodynamics

Heat engines have been known since antiquity but were only made into useful devices at the time of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. They continue to be developed today.

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