Most kids these days don’t read history back that far. We’re lucky if they know what happened in 2001.
It isn’t just kids.
Recently I was reading through some century old volumes of The Rudder magazine looking for ideas for a boat and motor when I came across something called a Twice-Two engine where a guy cleverly split up the 4-cycle engine into two cylinders: one for intake and compression and the other for power stroke and exhaust ... with the upshot being that as one fuel-air charge was being expended the next was being prepared ... kinda like pipelining an instruction on a CPU to put a current spin on it.
Because the compression cylinder never sees the heat of combustion it stays cooler and doesn’t have to work as hard to compress a charge (also effectively perfect scavenging) AND the port between the two cylinders acts like a jet under pressure completely mixing the fuel-air so there is no unburnt fuel even with a lowly carbureator.
Then I come to find out a fellah has claimed to invented the same thing again. Only he’s using a compressor with it.