Who Invented the Combustion Engine?

The first internal combustion engine existed as early as the thirteenth century and was used as a rocket engine by the Arabs, Chinese, and Mongols.

A brief outline of the history of the internal combustion engine includes the following highlights: * 1680 - Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal

17th century: English inventor Sir Samuel Morland used gunpowder to drive water pumps, essentially creating the first rudimentary internal combustion piston engine.