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Some 19th-century or earlier experimental engines used external flames, exposed by valves, for ignition, but this becomes less attractive with increasing compression.
( It was the research of Nicolas LĂ©onard Sadi Carnot that established the thermodynamic value of compression.
) A historical implication of this is that the Diesel engine would eventually have been invented without the aid of electricity.
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