Banking and Finance, Procedural Law, The Practice of Law. Hi, I'm Peter and welcome to TransLegal's lesson of the week. Today I'm going to be talking about power of attorney versus proxy. A power of attorney is a written authorisation for one person to act on behalf of another. The person granting the power is called the grantor and the person authorised to act is the agent or the attorney in fact.
built) an internal combustion engine that was to be fueled with gunpowder. 1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.
The External Combustion Engine is a more efficient variant of the internal combustion engine. The External Combustion Engine was first created in the early 1920s. Because it was introduced after Internal Combustion Engines had become the norm, it was widely ignored for much of the 20th century.