Sir dugald clerk biography of abraham lincoln

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Sir Dugald Clerk (sometimes written as Dugald Clark) KBE, LLD FRS (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881.

Sir dugald clerk biography of abraham lincoln

He invented the Clerk cycle gas engine in 1877, improving it in 1878 (see 11.498), and became a recognized authority on internal combustion engines.

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Sir DUGALD CLERK, K.B.E., was one of the pioneers in the development of the internal-combustion engine and achieved world-wide fame through his discoveries and inventions in Missing: abraham lincoln.

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Lincoln became the first president to be assassinated when he was shot on April 14, 1865.