Most modern gasoline and diesel-powered engines found in the cars and trucks seen on today's roadways rely on the four-cycle-engine principles developed in the late 1800s by Nikolaus Otto, Gottlieb ...

I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

American publisher Charles Knight was not at all impressed with his new 1901 Knox ‘gasoline runabout’. Like some other cars of the era, its four-stroke engine relied on a single valve to permit both ...

SLEEVE-VALVE ENGINES MAY NOW BE obscure automotive history, but they were once popular powerplants worldwide and could be found in the English Daimler and Belgian Minerva, among others. The best-known ...

Between 1935 and 1945, the Navy later sponsored a number of unconventional engine designs; however, few entered production. In February 1939, the U.S. Navy contracted with Continental for the ...

Our most likely exposure to a steam engine these days will probably come courtesy of a railway locomotive. A machine capable of immense power and probably with significant complexity and engineering ...

The internal combustion engine, despite being a century-and-a-half old, is still an impressive marvel of engineering. There are several variations of engine design that have been experimented with ...

That’s right, your prayers have been answered: Someone in Silicon Valley is finally developing an opposed-piston, sleeve-valve, variable-cycle engine for passenger-car use. Yeah, OK, we weren’t ...

Most car engines today are pretty similar. Even the ones we’d call different, like Porsche’s flat-sixes or Fiat’s new two-cylinder, follow tried-and-true engineering maxims that have dominated the ...

Today marks 111 years since David Dunbar Buick changed the name of his fledgling automobile company from Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company to simply Buick. At its inception, Buick battled its way to ...

February 2, 2006 UK-based RCV Engines is best known globally for its range of model aircraft engines but the unveiling yesterday of a prototype 125cc Rotating Cylinder Valve (RCV) scooter engine could ...

World War II was a time of serious technological development in many disciplines of engineering. While most aren’t exactly related to cars, the one that has always been fascinating is the rapid rate ...