The development of the internal-combustion engine at the end of the nineteenth century was a long process, and hundreds of problems had to be overcome before a working engine actually appeared.
One of these problems was getting the fuel into the engine. Fuel, oxygen, and heat are needed for fire to happen, but producing the right mix inside the engine was difficult. The gas pump in the first engines vaporized the gas and mixed it with air, but the proportion of air to gas was not controlled, so the combustion was sometimes big, sometimes small, and this made the engine very unstable.
The solution to this problem was found by two Hungarian engine manufacturers, Donat Banki (1859- 1922) and Janos Csonka (1852-1939). Banki was responsible for a number of advancements in automobiles, and together with Csonka he eliminated the problem of mixing gas and air. Inspiration came, as inspiration often
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