We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...
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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 ...
Free-piston engine generators and linear machines represent an innovative departure from conventional rotary systems, offering high thermal efficiency and operational flexibility by eliminating the ...
A novel but not new kind of engine is figuring more and more often in engineering literature and bull sessions. Last week the Cleveland Diesel Engine Division of General Motors Corp. gave details ...
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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