Sp ripping off yet another idea

[MarkM]

im not gonna say im right but i beliebve you are mistaken....gotfried datmier or something like that dont remember....

No he is right. Invented in 1876

http://ia.essortment.com/nikolausaugust_rcoe.htm

Though technically the patent was revoked (1886) in favour of Aphonse Beau de Rochas who had already designed the principle but not built a four stroke engine previously in 1862

You are thinking about Gottlieb Daimler who combined a chassis and engine...1885 and had previously used Nikolaus Otto's engine for the first motorcycle and then went further by using the same engine to build a car.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm

Nice little time line on that link, interesting that the first "automobile" was invented by the French!

[Konigballer]

interesting yes Mark, and yet so painfully galling that the Frogs had anything to do with the invention of modern transportation.