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.
In 1883 Gottlieb Daimler, who had previously worked with Otto, designed a four stroke internal combustion engine that ran on petrol or gasoline. The engine ran faster than Ottos so that it produced more power for the weight of the engine.