Otto's patent on this engine was later challenged and overturned.

The Petroleum Reitwagen used a hot tube ignition system and the fuel known as Ligroin to become the worlds first internal combustion engine power vehicle using a four-stroke engine based on Nikolaus Otto's design.

The technically trained Langen recognized the potential of Otto's development, and one month after the meeting, founded the first engine factory in the world, NA Otto & Cie. At the 1867 Paris World Exhibition their improved engine was awarded the Grand Prize.

The engines themselves are of considerable interest as precursors, not of the first commercial gas engines ( e. g. Lenoir engine in 1860, which used the 2-stroke cycle without compression, or the Otto and Langen atmospheric engines ), but rather of the later generation of engines including Otto's engines operating on the 4-stroke cycle and Dugald Clerk's engine operating on the 2-stroke cycle, both with compression of the gas / air mixture in the cylinder.

Daimler continued the development of Otto's engine for transportation while Deutz switched to Diesel engines.

Not really believing in automobile production the financiers expanded the stationary engine business, as they were selling well, and even considered a merger with Otto's Deutz-AG.

Philip was himself able to take undisputed control of most French territories of John of England, Otto's maternal uncle and ally.

A new generation of Greek politicians was growing increasingly intolerant of King Otto's continuing interference in government.

The official reason for the cutting was that Otto's dialogue slowed down the narrative.

After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex.

Most historians believe that it was only a matter of recognition of Otto's royal authority.

The hours he spent in the studio of his cousin, Fritz Amann, who was a painter, were decisive in forming young Otto's ambition to be an artist ; he received additional encouragement from his primary school teacher.

Otto's elder brother, Henry, was on a crusade at the time, and so the choice fell to Otto.

Otto's election pulled the empire into the conflict between England and France, since Philip had allied himself with the French king, Philip II, and Otto was supported at first by Richard I, and after his death in 1199, by his brother John.

The duchy was divided up in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion, Emperor Otto's grandson, refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Lombardy.

An unwise reference by the pope to Nikephoros II Phokas, the ruler in Constantinople, as " Greek " in a letter while Otto's ambassador, Liudprand of Cremona, was in the Byzantine court, had destroyed the first round of negotiations.

The arrival of Conrad, the exiled duke of Lotharingia ( Lorraine ) and Otto's son-in-law, was particularly heartening because he had recently thrown in his lot with the Magyars, but now returned to fight under Otto ; in the ensuing battle he lost his life.

From right to left the line was held by Duke Conrad's Franconians, three Bavarian divisions, Otto's division and two Swabian divisions.

Though it was undoubtedly a sign of Otto's respect for the Polish ruler, it could not truly mean Bolesław I was King as only the Pope had the authority to invest a prince with the crown and elevate his realm to a status of a kingdom.

Otto's other major work, The Two Cities was an exposition of the work of St. Augustine of Hippo of a similar title.

On the journey back to Germany, Otto's rearguard was attacked and destroyed by French forces, with their supplies being captured.

Otto's army was unable to break the fortification, so he changed tactics and sailed around it landing in Jutland with a large fleet.

Duke Henry's son Henry II " the Quarreller " however from 974 on revolted against his cousin Emperor Otto II, whereafter he was deposed as Duke of Bavaria in favour of Otto's nephew Duke Otto I of Swabia.

Scialo's body was found not long after at Otto's Social Club in South Brooklyn encased in the cement floor.

The Austrian administrative court found on 24 May 1963 that Otto's statement was sufficient to meet this requirement.

Austrian People's Party military spokesman Walter Murauer defended Otto's statement at the time Murauer claimed that there was " another reality behind the mass of people who listened to Hitler on the Heldenplatz ".

Otto's coffin was draped with the Habsburg flag decorated with the imperial – royal coats of arms of Austria and Hungary in addition to the Habsburg family coat of arms.

At Otto's court, he met Recemund, a Córdoban ambassador, who convinced him to write a history of his days ( the later Antapodosis, which was dedicated to Recemund ).

Otto's government was initially run by a three-man regency council made up of Bavarian court officials.

It was intended to provide an alternative to Nicholaus Otto's patented four stroke which would run on low grade fuels such as blast furnace waste gases.

Blacksad soon realizes that Litvak had copied Otto's information onto a canvas and then painted over it as a disguise.

In compliance with Henry's commands, he repudiated and divorced his Duchess Ethelinde, and soon thereafter ( in 1070 ) his fidelity he was rewarded with being appointed Duke of Bavaria in Otto's stead.

By Otto's marriage to Eilika, daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony, the Ascanians became heirs to half of the property of the House of Billung, former dukes of Saxony.

Otto's son, Albert the Bear, became, with the help of his mother's inheritance, the first Ascanian duke of Saxony in 1139.

In Germany, the crushing of a revolt in 953 by Liudolf, Otto's son by his first marriage, cemented the position of Adelaide, who retained all her dower lands.

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

By contrast, Otto's son-in-law, Conrad the Red, whom he had installed as Duke of Lorraine in 944, extended his power base in Franconia.

However, each king preferred certain places, in Otto's case, the city of Magdeburg.

Otto's coronation as Emperor made the German kings successors to the Empire of Charlemagne, which through translatio imperii also made them successors to Ancient Rome.

This also renewed the conflict with the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople, especially after Otto's son Otto II ( r. 967 – 83 ) adopted the designation imperator Romanorum.

Otto's reign would prove troubled, but managed to last for 30 years before he and his wife, Queen Amalia, left the way they came, aboard a British warship.

Otto's scenes, and those with Pilate's wife, were cut from the film after the script had gone to the publishers, and so they can be found in the published version of the script.

The meeting consolidated the Polish-German alliance, with Mieszko joining Otto's expedition against a Slavic land, which together they wholly devastated (...) with fire and tremendous depopulation.

Former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, founded in 936 by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, at the request of his mother Matilda of Ringelheim | Queen Matilda, in honour of her late husband, Otto's father, King Henry the Fowler, and as his memorial

By excluding the Bavarian line of Ottonians from the line of succession, Otto's son and successor Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor strengthened Imperial authority and secured his own son's succession to the Imperial throne.

Given the papal interest to keep Germany and Sicily apart, Innocent now supported his ward, King Frederick of Sicily, to resist Otto's advances and restore the Staufen dynasty to the Holy Roman Empire.

" Otto's analysis appears in a paper commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.