At the very same time, another kind of engine, the internal combustion engine, was being developed and perfected.
The internal combustion engine, driven by oil, had won the battle to power the automobile.
A group of children is no more likely to invent an alphabet than it is to invent the internal combustion engine.
All that pollution is transport borne: it all comes from motor vehicles and the internal combustion engine.
The world motor car industry is highly competitive, and our competitors are very competent manufacturers of the internal combustion engine.
We then saw the inexorable rise of the internal combustion engine.
Anyone who tries to frustrate or inhibit the use of the internal combustion engine, in my view, is frustrating progress.
We have open war between personal movement on the highway and the mobile, armoured internal combustion engine.