As we begin the last article in this series on the basics of the internal combustion engine, let's stop to review what we've covered during the last five articles. We began last May by detailIing the ...

The film discusses the development and advantages of the Wankel rotary engine, introduced by Felix Wankel in the early 20th century. It highlights the simplicity, fewer moving parts, and efficiency of ...

The rotary engine is not quite dead. Despite it last making a sports car experience in the Mazda RX-8 just under a decade ago, the oddball triangular engine has an unbelievably strong cult following ...

A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an eccentric ...

A normal Wankel has a triangle rotor spinning in a peanut-shaped housing. Liquid Piston flips that; now the peanut rotor spins inside a triangle housing. That small change makes a big difference. The ...

LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it's prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses. That means it'll be far ...