A carburetor is a device used on a gasoline fueled internal combustion engine to control and mix the air and fuel entering the engine. It adds fuel to the intake air mainly through the Venturi effect, Bernoulli's principle, or a pitot tube arrangement in its main metering circuit, with additional components supplying extra fuel or air under specific operating conditions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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YearSourced to the subject's own accountFloat-fed carburetor by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler. Earlier surface-carburetor patents (Samuel Morey, 1826) existed but never reached production. SignificanceSourced to the subject's own accountThe carburetor was the standard way of mixing fuel and air in gasoline engines for a century, and remains in use on small engines, motorcycles and piston aircraft even after fuel injection replaced it in cars and trucks from the 1980s onward. 1 Connections
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WikipediaHistory section, para 1, Grandfather Clock engine
The first float-fed carburetor design, which used an atomizer nozzle, was introduced by German engineers Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler in their 1885 Grandfather Clock engine.
Overview section, para 2, fuel injection replacement
Since the 1990s, carburetors have been largely replaced by fuel injection for cars and trucks, but carburetors are still used by some small engines (e.g. lawnmowers, generators, and concrete mixers), motorcycles, and smaller outboard engines.
Invented By: Gottlieb Daimler, History section, para 1, Maybach and Daimler credit
The first float-fed carburetor design, which used an atomizer nozzle, was introduced by German engineers Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler in their 1885 Grandfather Clock engine.
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