François Isaac de Rivaz (December 19, 1752, in Paris – July 30, 1828, in Sion) was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered...

The de Rivaz engine was a pioneering reciprocating engine designed and developed from 1804 by the Franco-Swiss inventor Isaac de Rivaz. The engine has...

François Isaac de Rivaz built and patented a hydrogen and oxygen-powered internal-combustion engine. Fitted to a crude four-wheeled wagon, François Isaac...

first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered...

Operating independently, in 1807 the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built the de Rivaz engine, a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine...

administrator François Isaac de Rivaz (1752–1828), French inventor and politician Pierre de Rivaz (1711–1772), French clockmaker Vincent de Rivaz (born 1953)...

transportation technology History of the internal combustion engine François Isaac de Rivaz List of works by Eugène Guillaume Nicéphore Niépce at the Encyclopædia...

internal combustion engine capable of doing useful work. 1807: François Isaac de Rivaz designs the first automobile powered by an internal combustion...

buoyant gas approximately 250 years ago. In 1804, the Swiss inventor Francois Isaac de Rivaz secured a patent for the inaugural hydrogen-powered vehicle. This...

1769 – James Watt patents his first improved steam engine. 1806 – François Isaac de Rivaz invented a hydrogen powered engine, the first successful internal...