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One of GM’s most complicated engines had no crankshaft, four pistons, two cylinders, a turbine, and could run on whale oil
Automotive history is full of dead ends that eventually get lost to time. Seventy years ago, the free-piston engine was ...
The Ford Motor Company of the 1950s brewed up what some journalists thought was the engine of the future. At a time when the gas turbine was all the rage, Ford experimented with a new kind of piston ...
There is probably no better chronicler into the full depth of American ingenuity than YouTube. Here one finds not just computer models for all manner of esoteric combustion engine designs, but actual ...
Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...
When we here in the modern age think of an “engine,” we are usually thinking of a four-stroke, four-cylinder, gasoline-fed, internal-combustion engine with the valves on the top. But why must that be ...
From General Motors Corp.’s research shops last week came a torpedo-shaped car with a revolutionary new engine. Called the XP-50O, the car is powered by a 250-h.p. “free-piston” engine that many ...
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