How does an internal combustion engine work?

Engines, a very marvelous invention in our society. The first engines were made during the 1800's using steam. These engines used hydraulic pressure to create energy to propel something. This is how Steam trains arose. Soon engines became more and more advanced and smaller and smaller until 1872 just before the industrial revolution when George Brayton invented the first internal combustion engines, a very basic version of what we have in our modern cars today. Engines work using a piston and compression to drive the car. An engine uses its pistons to push down on gas made of fuel and air turning the crankshaft which takes the motion of the pistons into a rotational motion. This motion with a series of rods and shafts end up turning the wheels of the car. The car intakes air and fuel from the tank which ends up creating a highly combustible gas that pushes against the piston to make it move up and down. This is a summary of how the engine works at a basic level, there is far more that goes into making and engine run but this is the simple level of how it turns the wheels on your car.