9 Dec 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / One of the highlights of the annual tractor show in Burkhardtsdorf, is an amazing radial engine mounted on the back of a trailer. Now, we don't often get to ...

Power rating: 33.6 kW (45 hp) at 1,300 rpm Displacement: 4.6 L (279 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 90 mm (3.5 in.) x 120 mm (4.7 in.) Alessandro Anzani, an Italian who originally built motorcycles in France ...

The 20th century was the age of the internal combustion engine. The fruits of industrial progress produced power plants tasked with everything from running generators to powering warplanes. The First ...

Bore and Stroke: 140 mm (5.51 in.) x 130 mm (5.12 in.) During World War II, the Mitsubishi Army Type 1, Ha 31 Model 21 (Ha 102) powered the Mitsubishi Ki-46-II/II KAI, Army Type 100 command ...

The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...

If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...

Honda might be looking back to early aeronautics in its latest bid to make variable compression engines simpler and sturdier. The engine is designed to take advantage of the simple crank design of ...

As the automotive propulsion industry shifts toward electrification, the last-of-breed combustion engines are a stultifyingly similar bunch, focused around the same CAD-optimized 500cc cylinder ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...