One of the technologies which helped make the modern world is the internal combustion engine.

Without it, the world would be a very different place today.

Yet it wasn't a technology that appeared fully formed.

It was developed incrementally over a century. To get it to a point

where it was viable for use in vehicles took numerous innovations. Learn more

about the internal combustion engine, how it was developed and all the problems that had to be solved on this episode of

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I think a good place to start this discussion is to define what an engine is.

An engine is something that converts combustion into work.

It is distinct from a motor that converts electricity into work.

Even though the terms are often used interchangeably,

motors and engines are different things.

The first engines were steam engines.

A steam engine was based on creating heat,

either through wood, coal, or some other combustible

substance in boiling water. The steam would then turn a turbine which would turn a

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