The creator of the rotary engine was the German engineer Felix Wankel.

Felix Wankel was born on August 13, 1902. Felix Wankel was only 17 when he came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine. In 1942 Wankel started is dream engine that is able to attain intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust all while rotating. Wankel completed his first design of a rotary piston engine in 1954 and in 1957 it was first tested.

Most engines created in that era moving pistons did the work of getting the combustion process started. In Wankel’s rotary engine the orbiting rotor in the shape of a curved equilateral triangle started the combustion process. Later in time once the rotary engine was finalized hundreds of companies wanted partnership with Wankel. Until Mazda, the Japanese automaker signed a formal contract with NSU in July 1961, after receiving approval from the Japanese government.

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