Claude Félix Abel Niépce was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated Nicéphore Niépce. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal combustion engine a
Chromolithograph depicting Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and Claude Félix Abel Niépce.
Diagram of the first internal combustion engine, the Pyreolophore, of 1806 which was powered by a mixture of coal dust and lycopodium powder.