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Otto added several refinements to make Lenoir’s design more efficient and set up a company to sell his new engine for use in factories. In the years that followed Otto further improved the design, in particular by having the piston compress the fuel-air mixture before ignition (the engine ran on a type of petroleum spirit known as ligroin), and by
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Just as it was taking to the road, another German engineer, Carl Benz, was putting the finishing touches on a vehicle of his own. Benz, like Daimler and Maybach, had applied his experience in building stationary engines for factory use to develop a small internal combustion engine for use in road vehicles. He was a keen cyclist, but rather than
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minimum viable product). At this point you want to focus on only the parts that are absolutely necessary to show why your app delivers something new and novel – something that wows your users. For Hailo it was focusing on how a user could see nearby taxis on a map, then hit the ‘Pick Me Up Here’ button and have a driver accept the hail. We also
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