
François Isaac de Rivaz (Paris, December 19, 1752 – Sion, July 30, 1828) was an inventor from Switzerland. He is credited with the construction in 1806 of the first internal combustion engine, powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. He continued to build a rudimentary automobile powered by it in 1807. [1][2] He also experimented with steam-powered vehicles in the late 18th century.[3] It is reported that this engine was built, but was not commercially successful. Although there was a certain degree of early work on the idea of the internal combustion engine, development truly began in earnest in the mid-nineteenth century. Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870.
1805Isaac de Rivaz (1752-1828), Dia merancang dan membuat mesin pembakaran internal atau Internal Combustion Engine, tetapi belum sempurna. Waktu itu bahan bakar fosil, yang merupakan sumber bahan bakar minyak belum ditemukan. Dia menggunakan air sebagai bahan bakarnya. Mobil Isaac adalah yang pertama menggunakan Hydrogen dengan sistem elektrolisa air.