The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons ...

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 ...

Piston powered engines, chiefly the Otto and Diesel cycle, are current kings of the internal combustion mountain. Piston powered engines turn reciprocating energy (the up and down motion of the ...

Piston rings are the reason internal combustion engines can exist. They're slim rings of metal that hug the outer edge of the piston, responsible for sealing the combustion pressure inside the ...

All piston-cylinder internal combustion engines have a choice to make with regards to bore and stroke. Should an engine have ...

THE internal combustion engine began with gas as fuel, but the use of concentrated liquid fuel has determined its vast development in all fields of transport. Circumstances, too familiar to ...

followed by a chapter descriptive of experiments on rates of combustion, etc., in the engine cylinder. Working cycles and the conditions occurring in actual engines are then treated; this section ...