First a little history. Back in the middle of the 19th Century a traveling salesman named Nicolaus Otto was reading about the new invention of the Lenoir gas powered motor. His sales area was all of western Germany and most of the traveling he did was by horse drawn coaches. Otto was a fastidious man and he was repelled by the thousands of tons of horse manure on the roads everywhere. He had a dream of developing a motor which could be fueled by liquid fuel like gasoline and small and powerful enough to propel a road vehicle. The Lenoir motor ran on town gas and was big, heavy, and stationary.
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