In terms of relative length of units, a yoctometre ranks as follows: Planck length yoctometre zeptometre. A yoctometre is 1/1000 of a zeptometre (1 zeptometre (zm) = 1,000 yoctometres). The yoctometre,is the distance light travels in about:1Ã·2.99Ã10 35 seconds.
Engines of various sorts have been invented over the last two or three centuries. 1  In 1698, English military engineer, Thomas Savery, invented and patented the first crude steam engine, based on Denis Papin's Digester (pressure cooker) of 1679.
1 Benz demonstrated the first gasoline car powered by an internal-combustion engine in Mannheim, Germany, on 3 July 1886 after patenting it on 29 January 1886. 2  The Diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, a German inventor born in France.