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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1925, Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single ...

Gabriel Voisin was an aviation pioneer who progressed into the car business after the First World War using Knight-type sleeve-valve engines. Designed by American Charles Yale Knight yet perfected in ...

Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design in 1925. Believing this technology might replace poppet valves ...

One hundred was a lot of horsepower in 1914, even for an 8.0-liter engine in a low-production luxury car. Yet 100 was the figure claimed for the remarkable Stearns-Knight Six, of which at least 350 ...

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When Chrysler’s engineers set about developing the corporation’s first V-8 engine, they took nothing for granted in their quest for a superior design. They examined every type of engine then ...

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 ...