** Lenoir cycle ( e. g., pulse jet engine )

The first commercially successful internal combustion engine was created by Étienne Lenoir.

* 1862 – Étienne Lenoir made a gasoline engine automobile

In 1860 William Siemens constructed a remarkable gas engine ( the same year the very first commercial engine was produced by Lenoir ).

In 1860 Étienne Lenoir used an electric spark plug in his first internal combustion engine and is generally credited with the invention of the spark plug.

* Étienne Lenoir In 1886, he patented, among internal combustion engine improvements, the first modernly recognizable spark plug shown as figure # 6 here:.

The Otto cycle is named after the 1876 engine of Nikolaus A. Otto, who built a successful four-cycle engine based on the work of Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir.

After 1884, Otto also developed the magneto to create an electrical spark for ignition, which had been unreliable on the Lenoir engine.

In his travels he encountered the internal combustion engine built in Paris by Belgian expatriate Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir.

In 1860, Lenoir successfully created a double-acting engine that ran on illuminating gas at 4 % efficiency.

In testing a replica of the Lenoir engine in 1861 Otto became aware of the effects of compression on the fuel charge.

In 1862, Otto attempted to produce an engine to improve on the poor efficiency and reliability of the Lenoir engine.

Daimler was a gunsmith who had also worked on the Lenoir engine previously.

* Étienne Lenoir, working in Paris, produces the first single-cylinder two-stroke Lenoir cycle gas engine with an electric ignition system.

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.

* Lenoir Cycle, the basis of the first commercially produced internal combustion engine

In his travels he encountered the internal combustion engine built in Paris by Belgian expatriate Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir.

In 1860 Lenoir succeeded in creating a double-acting engine which ran on illuminating gas at 4 % efficiency.

In testing a replica of the Lenoir engine in 1861 Otto became aware of the effects of compression on the fuel charge.

After graduation, Marshall taught in the public schools of Lenoir County, North Carolina and then ran a book and gift store.

Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, on December 28, 1944.

Well-educated, with an organisational ability, business acumen, focus on detail and diplomatic skills that surpassed even Carte's, Lenoir gradually became intensely involved in all of his business affairs.

The government had been searching for and consolidating long abandoned stone quarries in and around the capital since 1777, and it was the Police Lieutenant General overseeing the renovations, Alexandre Lenoir, who first had the idea to use empty underground tunnels on the outskirts of the capital to this end.

* West Caldwell High School: a 2-A school located on the border of Lenoir in Gamewell, North Carolina.

Sweetwater was established in the 1850s on a series of lots sold by Isaac Lenoir ( 1807 – 1875 ), a local politician and son of the founder of Lenoir City ( located a few miles to the northeast in Loudon County ).

The Lenoir, Otto Atmospheric, and Otto Compression engines ( both 1861 and 1876 ) were designed to run on Illuminating Gas ( coal gas ).

After relocating to Cologne he quit his office job in order to construct small gas engines, starting out by seeking to improve on the existing design of Étienne Lenoir.

Lenoir was born on March 14, 1939, in Miami, Florida.

Lenoir flew as a mission specialist on STS-5 ( November 11 – 16, 1982 ), the first space shuttle flight to deploy commercial satellites, and logged over 122 hours in space.

With a college classmate, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, he donated the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower on the campus.

* 1960: Lenoir Chambers, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, " for his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by ' The Year the Schools Closed ,' published January 1, 1959, and ' The Year the Schools Opened ,' published December 31, 1959.

Since the TVA headquarters were already designated to be located in downtown Knoxville, as part of area development on what was then the Holston River, to fulfill the Congressional mandate, the official start of the Tennessee River was moved upstream from Lenoir City to the confluence of the Holston and French Broad rivers.

He was born at Moseley Hall in Lenoir County, North Carolina, which is a different place than Moseley Hall on the Northeast branch of the Cape Fear created by colonial official Edward Moseley, to whom he was not related.

The live album was recorded on 2 December 1998 as the opening act of the Rencontres Trans Musicales in the Salle Serreau at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, for the C ' est Lenoir show broadcasted on the French public radio station France Inter.

It consumed less than half the gas of the Lenoir and Hugon engines and so was a commercial success.

It featured a slider valve control with gas flame ignition, which overcame the problems that Lenoir could not overcome with electric ignition which was unreliable at that time.

Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

By this time, Helen Lenoir had been promoted from Carte's secretary to his assistant.

As an instrument maker, he improved the reflecting circle ( invented by Tobias Mayer ) and the repeating circle ( invented by his assistant, Etienne Lenoir ), the latter used to measure the meridian arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona by Delambre and Méchain.

Pétanque in its present form was invented in 1907 in the town of La Ciotat near Marseilles by a French boule lyonnaise player named Jules Lenoir, whose rheumatism prevented him from running before he threw the ball.

Archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir saved many of the monuments from the same revolutionary officials by claiming them as artworks for his Museum of French Monuments.

Lenoir Dining Hall was completed in 1939 and opened for service to students when they returned from Christmas holidays in January 1940.

Along with agricultural pursuits, which included producing hams from a herd of Berkshire hogs, Lenoir operated several small-scale industries, including a sawmill and flour mill.

At the same time, summer residents began to come up from the nearby city of Lenoir to enjoy the cool fresh air and magnificent mountain views.

Contentnea Creek bisects the town and divides the Pitt County section from the Lenoir County section.

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His Tomb of Richelieu ( church of the Sorbonne ) was saved from destruction by Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet thrust in protecting the head of the cardinal from mutilation.

In 1904, a monument to Franck by sculptor Alfred Lenoir, César Franck at the Organ, was placed in the Square Samuel-Rousseau across the street from Sainte-Clotilde.

Elected to the North Carolina Senate from Pitt County in 1788 and 1789, Blount and his allies successfully countered attempts by antifederalists Willie Jones and William Lenoir to thwart adoption of the new Constitution, and North Carolina voted for its ratification in November 1789.

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Lenoir attended primary school in Coral Gables, Florida and graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School in 1957.

Lenoir resigned from NASA in September 1984, to assume a position with the management and technology consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton in Arlington, Virginia.

Lenoir resigned from NASA again in April 1992, to assume the position of Vice President of the Applied Systems Division at Booz Allen Hamilton in Bethesda, Maryland.

US-70 approaches Dixie Lee Junction from Kingston to the west, and US-11 approaches from Lenoir City to the southwest.

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* The actress and super-model Noémie Lenoir is from Gif-sur-Yvette, in the l ' Abbaye section.

The eastern division is headquartered in Greenville and handles cases from Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, and Pitt counties.

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