William Sturgeon, the Electromagnet (1825)
Michael Faraday, the Electric Dynamo (1831)
Welshman, William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge, inventor and physicist, The Hydrogen Fuel Cell (1839)
Karl Benz, invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine(1885)
Gottlieb Daimler, first four-wheeled motor vehicle (1886)
Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine (1892)
Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine (1898)