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Barsanti and Matteucci were the two men who patented the first efficient and practical gas engine in 1853. Matteucci had the brain for mechanics and Barsanti was the thinker, he was also a priest. Father Eugenio Barsanti as the name given to a priest was born 10/12/ 1821 and died 4/19/1864. The idea of harnessing the power of the explosion of mixed hydrogen and air. He did designed a three cycle engine that was very complex since induction and explosion took place on the same stroke. Barsanti was known for his abrupt thought process built another engine with inline pistons. Later he did another engine that was terribly unsuccessful because of its opposing design. The same design is like what is now used in Subaru engines.
Matteucci on the other hand retired after the two men had a quarrel. Barsanti went back to work on his tandem engine he had. Typhoid fever took Barsanti’s life on a day in May 1864. Etienne Lenoir had better engine design than that of Barsanti. Although the engines were better, they terribly inefficient, 18 liters would yield only two horse power. There is more to come on this wonder machine called the engine.
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