François Isaac de Rivaz
Swiss inventor and politician
Died when: 75 years 224 days (907 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
François Isaac de Rivaz (Paris, December 19, 1752 – Sion, July 30, 1828) was a French-born Swiss inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807.
In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile".
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