Internal combustion engines

The title is “internal combustion engines”. I want to talk about the history of this type of engines. I also want to talk about how it was developed by the time to become the nowadays sophisticated engine. Example of the changes I want to talk about is fuel economy, less problems, more power out of smaller engines an so on.
The professor didn’t have any special instructions. Just a research paper. He is easy with the sources. He wants notes for every source as in why did you choose this source and what does it say. He didn’t have any comments or instructions other than follow apa style in the research paper.