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1893 – Combustion engine

Sweden’s first combustion engine, a single-cylinder four-stroke paraffin engine, was designed by an engineer named Weyland.

Bolinders built the engine and presented it to the market in 1893.

It was not particularly successful and went out of production shortly after.

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