The First Internal Combustion Engine in History Has Roared Again
15 February 2025 4 min read 3 images
Photo credit: ASI, Angelo Rosa Museo Nicolis
In 1853, in Florence, Father Eugenio Barsanti and engineer Felice Matteucci filed the project for the first internal combustion engine in history. It was a single-cylinder engine with five horsepower, created and used at the workshops of the Maria Antonietta Railway Station in Florence to power a drill and a shear.
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