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The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979 Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companiesPrior to its merger with Standard Oil of California Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the Mellon family fortune. Three types of internal combustion engines were designed by German inventors Nicolaus Otto and his partner Eugen LangenThe models were a failed 1862 compression engine an 1864 atmospheric engine and the 1876 Otto cycle engine known today as the gasoline engineThe engines were initially used for stationary installations as Otto had no interest in transportation.

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When was the gasoline engine invented. There were two scavenge pumps returning oil from the engine to an oil tank from which the main oil pump sent it off round the engine. A V12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where two banks of six cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V12 engines are more common than V10 enginesHowever they are less common than V8 engines.

Both Gulf and Mellon Financial had. The DB601 and variants were used in a number of German and axis aircraft and was a dry sump design. 1885 who invented an engine with a vertical positioned cylinder fueled by gasoline injected into a cylinder chamber through a carburetor.

The first V12 engine was built in 1904 for use in racing boatsDue to the balanced nature of the engine and the smooth delivery of power V12 engines. Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from 1901 until March 15 1985.