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===Millet=== [[File:Felix Millet.jpg|right|thumb|An 1897 Félix Millet motorcycle]] [[Félix Millet (inventor)|Félix Millet]] showed a 5-cylinder rotary engine built into a bicycle wheel at the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Exposition Universelle]] in Paris in 1889. Millet had patented the engine in 1888, so must be considered the pioneer of the internal combustion rotary engine. A machine powered by his engine took part in the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race of 1895 and the system was put into production by [[Darracq and Company London]] in 1900.<ref name="nahum20">{{cite book| last = Nahum| first = Andrew| title = The Rotary Aero Engine| year = 1999| publisher = NMSI Trading Ltd| isbn = 1-900747-12-X| pages = 20 }}</ref>
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