Isocrates, ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important source on the intellectual and political life of the Athens of his day. The school he founded differed in its aims from the Academy of Plato and numbered among its pupils men of eminence from all over...
Nikolaus Otto, (born June 10, 1832, Holzhausen, Nassau, Germany—died January 26, 1891, Cologne), German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source.
The post-war era was especially hard for the German automotive industry. One of the most troubled car companies was BMW, which suffered from a weak line-up...