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This article is about the English engineer and inventor. See Samuel Brown
Samuel Brown

Samuel Brown may refer to:* Samuel Brown , English inventor of early internal combustion engine* Samuel Brown , English pioneer suspension bridge engineer and inventor...
 for other persons of the same name.

Samuel Brown was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 and inventor
Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
 credited with developing one of the earliest examples of an internal combustion engine
Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
, during the early 19th century.

Brown, a cooper
Cooper (profession)

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staff vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads....
 by training (he also patented improvements to machinery for manufacturing casks and other vessels), has been described as the 'father of the gas engine'.






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This article is about the English engineer and inventor. See Samuel Brown
Samuel Brown

Samuel Brown may refer to:* Samuel Brown , English inventor of early internal combustion engine* Samuel Brown , English pioneer suspension bridge engineer and inventor...
 for other persons of the same name.

Samuel Brown was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 and inventor
Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
 credited with developing one of the earliest examples of an internal combustion engine
Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
, during the early 19th century.

Brown, a cooper
Cooper (profession)

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staff vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads....
 by training (he also patented improvements to machinery for manufacturing casks and other vessels), has been described as the 'father of the gas engine'. While living at Eagle Lodge in the Brompton
Brompton, Kensington

Brompton is a locality in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is roughly defined by the triangle of Brompton Road, Sloane Street and Sloane Avenue....
 area of west London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, from 1825 to 1835, he developed 'the first gas engine that unquestionably did actual work and was a mechanical success'. He set up two engines for demonstration purposes in the grounds of the Lodge.

Brown's Gas Vacuum Engine