Rolls-Royce Avon | ... ng previously specified Halford H.1 Goblin engines, four new, more powerful | s were to be incorporated in pairs buried in the wing roots; Halford H.2 G ... |
Daimler-Benz DB 601 | ... Z. Dornier therefore equipped the V3 prototype with the 1,175 PS (1,159 hp) | Ba inline engines (note: it is not the first time DB engines where used in ... |
De architectura | ... Pythagoreans held, by mathematical ratio, but by the ear. Vitruvius in his | paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music. His ideas were responded ... |
Rolls-Royce Avon | ... The General Electric LM2500, General Electric LM6000, Rolls-Royce RB211 and | are common models of this type of machine |
Alfa Romeo 126-RC34 | ... gasus under licence, with the engine based on the Pegasus designated as the | with the civil version as the 126-RC10. In Czechoslovakia it was built by ... |
Diesel engine | The second type of four-stroke engine is the | developed in 1893 by Rudolph Diesel, also of Germany. Diesel created his e ... |
F117 | ... -22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the | for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powe ... |
BMW 132 | ... Hornet engines. By the mid-30s they had introduced an improved version, the | . The BMW 132 was widely used, most notably on the Junkers Ju 52, which it ... |
BMW 801J | ... ew universal engine mount would allow for the use of any of the DB 603JZ or | turbocharged engines or the Jumo 213E two-stage mechanically supercharged ... |
Arriel 2C2-CG | ... plant, and in March 2004 the Guard announced the selection of the Turbomeca | , already installed on the EC155. This upgrade began in 2004, and has resu ... |
Nissan L engine | ... Nissan introduced its new highly advanced four cylinder overhead cam (OHC) | , which while similar to Mercedes-Benz OHC designs was a totally new engin ... |
diesel | ... med by incomplete combustion of carbon-containing fuels such as wood, coal, | , fat, tobacco, and incense. Different types of combustion yield different ... |
Frank Whittle | In 1930, having found no interest from the RAF for his idea, | patented the design for a centrifugal gas turbine for jet propulsion. The ... |
As.109-014 | ... ete V-1 airframe was delivered 30 August 1942, and after the first complete | was delivered in September, the first glide test flight was 28 October 194 ... |
Turbomeca Arriel | ... ircraft), engineering changes were required — notably, the SA365's original | engines were replaced with LTS101-750B-2 powerplants, which at the time re ... |
B-family | ... rther develop their own modern engine designs past what the Austin's A- and | designs offered. The apex of the Austin-derived engines was the new design ... |
Rolls-Royce Olympus | ... class corvettes, Turunmaa and Karjala, in 1968. They were equipped with one | TMB3 gas turbine and three Wärtsilä marine diesels for slower speeds. They ... |
Saab B engine | ... ine production facilities of Scania. In 1972 they started manufacturing the | , and in 1977 Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with turbocharger ... |
diesel oil | ... use in automobiles and trucks greatly increased the demand for gasoline and | , both made from fossil fuels. Other forms of transportation, railways and ... |
Pratt & Whitney JT3C | ... ut on May 14, 1954, then first flew on July 15, 1954. It was powered by the | turbojet engine, which was the civilian version of the J57 used on many mi ... |
Turboshaft | | engines are often used to drive compression trains (for example in gas pum ... |
Pratt & Whitney F100 | ... eds. Another advantage of the YF-16 – unlike the YF-17 – was its use of the | turbofan engine, the same powerplant used by the F-15; such commonality wo ... |
J52 | ... the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the | for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, ... |
H-block | ... ence between the two was primarily in the arrangement of the cylinders – an | in the Sabre and an X-block in the Vulture |
Saab two-stroke | DKW engines were used by Saab as a model for the | used in their new Saab 92 automobile manufacturing venture, in 1947 |
Triumph Slant-4 engine | ... b-Scania AB. The merger meant that Saab no longer had to import the British | , and could instead use the engine production facilities of Scania. In 197 ... |
GE T700 | ... e UH-1Y includes a lengthened cabin, four-blade rotor and two more powerful | engines. The UH-1Y entered service with the USMC in 2008 |
Rudolf Diesel | Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. | originally designed the diesel engine to use coal dust as a fuel. He also ... |
Rolls-Royce Avon | ... Comet 2 had a slightly larger wing, higher fuel capacity and more powerful | engines, which all improved the aircraft's range and performance; its fuse ... |
flathead | After the English Ford | (L head or side valve) with 49 hp (37 kW), a BMC series A was used, then p ... |
Nakajima Hikari | ... used for simplicity. The aircraft was to be powered by the 529 kW (710 hp) | 1 nine-cylinder radial engine |
water jet(s) | ... their way forward more effectively using (additional) screw propeller(s) or | . Most amphibians will work only as a displacement hull when in the water ... |
Nissan VQ engine | The | s, of V6 configuration, have been featured among Ward's 10 Best Engines fo ... |
Stirling engine | ... is actually small in comparison), which Kamen is working to convert into a | -powered kinetic sculpture |
waterjet | Boeing launched its first passenger-carrying | -propelled hydrofoil Boeing 929, in April 1974. Those ships were powered b ... |
General Electric T58 | ... on missile bases included a specific requirement to mandate the use of the | turboshaft as a powerplant. The Air Force had a large inventory of these e ... |
Pratt & Whitney JT3D | ... stretched 707 with Rolls-Royce Conway 508 turbofans, debuted in 1960, while | turbofans debuted on the 707-120B and 707-320B models in 1961 and 1962, re ... |
Rapier | ... wo new engines using the even more compact H engine layout. The 16-cylinder | produced 400 hp (300 kW), the 24-cylinder Dagger delivered just under 1,00 ... |
Rolls-Royce Pegasus | ... an engine used in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and which became known as the | when Rolls-Royce took over that company. Two Bristol Pegasus engines remai ... |
Cosworth DFV | ... powerful version of their V8 to maintain competitiveness against Ford's new | , but it proved very unreliable. Slow communications between the UK and Au ... |
diesel | ... p will get the subsidy. The government is considering removing subsidies on | for general consumers while maintaining subsidies for suitable groups, suc ... |
air-cooled | The BMW 801 was a powerful German | radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German militar ... |
R-1340 Wasp | ... mpany. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft's first engine, the 425 horsepower (317 kW) | , was completed on Christmas Eve 1925. On its third test run it easily pas ... |
L series | ... duced the Datsun 240Z sports car which used a six-cylinder variation of the | engine. The 240Z was an immediate sensation and lifted Nissan to world cla ... |
diesel | ... cleaner alternative to other automobile fuels such as gasoline (petrol) and | . As of 2008 there were 9.6 million natural gas vehicles worldwide, led by ... |
General Electric T700 | The AH-64 is powered by two | turboshaft engines with high-mounted exhausts on either side of the fusela ... |
Stirling engine | Kamen has worked extensively on a project involving | designs, attempting to create two machines; one that would generate power, ... |
M12 | ... charged engines to Formula One in 1977. Brabham had tested a BMW 4-cylinder | turbocharged engine in the summer of 1981. For the 1982 season the team de ... |
Diesel-powered | | cars generally have a better fuel economy than equivalent gasoline engines ... |
capacity | ... er engines, later variants could produce 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) from its | of 1,750 cubic inches (28 L) by use of a geared supercharger |
Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 | The powerplant first selected for the single-engined F-16 was the | afterburning turbofan, a slightly modified version of the F100-PW-100 used ... |
Bramo 323 | ... tion Do 215 to the export version. The V1 prototype retained the 9-cylinder | Fafnir radial engine of the Do 17Z |
Bristol Jupiter | ... Fedden as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Company's very successful | , following lessons learned in the Mercury effort. The Mercury was a small ... |
Pratt & Whitney R-2800 | ... 22, 1943 on the light carrier . The arrival of the F6Fs with their powerful | radial engines in late 1943 combined with the deployment of the new Essex ... |
Allison V-1710 | ... p towards the use of engine management systems, like that later used by the | |
RD-180 | ... still used on the Zenit rocket. A half-sized derivative of the engine, the | , powers Lockheed Martin's Atlas V rocket. The quarter size derivative of ... |
Rolls-Royce Gnome | ... el similar to the UH-1F by re-engining the 204B with the 1,225 shp (914 kW) | turboshaft and later the UH-1F's General Electric engine. The Italian vers ... |
Mitsubishi Sirius engine | ... y Charles Lindbergh. The name was also adopted by Mitsubishi Motors for the | in 1980 |
Diesel engine | ... with the three-cylinder 1,000 cc engine, but later received a Mercedes-Benz | and finally was renamed a Mercedes-Benz in 1975 |
Sabre | ... sh with a new sleeve valve design, which eventually matured into the superb | |
Lycoming T53 | ... and two rotor blades on the main rotor. Early UH-1 models featured a single | turboshaft engine in versions with power ratings from to . Later UH-1 and ... |
Bristol Proteus | ... ish Brave class fast patrol boat) in service from 1965 to 1990) which had 3 | (later RR Proteus) Marine Gas Turbines rated at combined, plus two General ... |
steam engine | ... he work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham | pioneers. The process consisted of the large scale gasification of coal in ... |
Rolls-Royce Merlin | ... , dual magnetos, two spark plugs per cylinder, and so on. Packard built the | aero engine under license alongside the 4M-2500, but with the exception of ... |
Abbey Pumping Station | ... e of three coal mines that operated in Coalville from the 1820s until 1986. | houses four enormous steam powered beam engines built in Leicester in the ... |
Roger & Me | ... ne by Errol Morris incorporated stylized re-enactments, and Michael Moore's | placed far more interpretive control with the director. The commercial suc ... |
National Marine Aquarium | ... rather than fish, due to the need to avoid duplicating the exhibits at the | in Plymouth. The project was subsequently taken on by Paignton Zoo Environ ... |
Hull, Massachusetts | ... e beta program of Napster, Shawn moved his company from his headquarters in | to a more spacious location in San Mateo, California and hired additional ... |
diesel | ... urbines accept most commercial fuels, such as petrol, natural gas, propane, | , and kerosene as well as renewable fuels such as E85, biodiesel and bioga ... |
steam engine | ... laboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his | , which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing ... |
Honda J | ... a Odyssey, Honda Pilot, and Honda Ridgeline are built there, as well as the | V6 engine |
H engine | ... Napier started on the design of two new engines using the even more compact | layout. The 16-cylinder Rapier produced 400 hp (300 kW), the 24-cylinder D ... |
A series engine | ... designs offered. The apex of the Austin-derived engines was the new design | in 1967. Also in 1967 Nissan introduced its new highly advanced four cylin ... |
diesel cycle | ... developments of the Pegasus created the fuel-injected Bristol Draco and the | Bristol Phoenix, both types being produced in limited numbers. In contrast ... |
R-985 Wasp Junior | The R-1340 was followed by another very successful engine, the | . Eventually a whole Wasp series was developed. Both engines are still in ... |
Pratt & Whitney JT9D | ... ad range of 4,350 miles (3,780 nmi, 7,000 km). The series 20 was powered by | turbofan engines, whereas the series 10 and 30 engines were General Electr ... |
VK56DE | The Titan features a 32 valve 5.6 L | V8 engine which generates 317 hp, and is capable of towing approximately 9 ... |
Thomas Savery | The first real attempt at industrial use of steam power was due to | in 1698. He constructed and patented in London a low-lift combined vacuum ... |
BMC series A | ... fter the English Ford flathead (L head or side valve) with 49 hp (37 kW), a | was used, then push rod overhead valve (OHV) Fords of 1,340 cc and 1,500 c ... |
Rolls-Royce R | ... then dropped by Supermarine in favour of a new engine from Rolls-Royce, the | which had been especially designed for racing |
Daimler-Benz DB 601 | ... rcraft is the tail section which lies to the rear of the main wreckage. The | engines were recovered along with the starboard portion of the cockpit |
water injection | ... versions of the military J57, initially producing 13,000 lb (57.8 kN) with | . Maximum takeoff weight was 247,000 lb and first flight was on December 2 ... |
Opera's own web browser | ... to engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, and is used in | |
Duratec 35 | ... m the existing Five Hundred, including a new front end and the 263 hp 3.5 L | V6, which replaces the Duratec 30 3.0 L V6. The Five Hundred/Freestyle's Z ... |
Stretham Old Engine | ... n windpumps were replaced with powerful coal-powered steam engines, such as | , which were themselves replaced with diesel-powered pumps and, following ... |
Bristol Phoenix | ... of the Pegasus created the fuel-injected Bristol Draco and the diesel cycle | , both types being produced in limited numbers. In contrast, by the end of ... |
diesel | ... rated from the other components in crude oil (such as naphtha, gasoline and | ) by the process of fractional distillation, usually under vacuum conditio ... |
Bristol Hercules | ... its prime. Gradually, they fell further and further behind. By the time the | and the Rolls-Royce Merlin arrived in the late 1930s, the Lion was too sma ... |
Sir Charles Parsons | ... lileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, | , Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Gr ... |
Rotax Max | ... b level classes. Dry centrifugal clutches are now used in many categories ( | is one example) and have become the norm as the top international classes ... |
propulsion of fluid | ... ve turbine efficiencies of well over 50%. The methods and apparatus for the | s and thermodynamic transformation of energy were disclosed in various pat ... |
Rolls-Royce Conway | ... er fuselage with five-abreast seating, a wing with greater sweep and podded | engines. Without support from the Ministry of Transport, the proposal lang ... |
Sir Charles Parsons | ... extracted from wind or flowing water. The modern steam turbine invented by | in 1884 today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the worl ... |
2-stroke | ... s for karts. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10, was an adapted chainsaw | engine. Later, in the 1960s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart ... |
two-cycle | ... ngine and the four-cycle diesel engine. The diesel engine is made in both a | and a four-cycle version. Otto's company, Deutz AG, now primarily produces ... |
Rolls-Royce Conway | ... wing and JT4A engines, while the 707-420 was the same as the -320 but with | turbofan engines. British certification requirements relating to engine-ou ... |
JT8D-219 | ... n a joint venture with Seven Q Seven (SQS) and Omega Air, has developed the | as a re-engine powerplant for Boeing 707-based aircraft, calling their mod ... |
Compression ratio | ... , and is factor in a higher compression engine being more efficient. Higher | s also mean that the distance that the piston can push to produce power is ... |
Engine displacement | ... rive cars called Schwebeklasse and Sonderklasse with two-stroke V4 engines. | was 1,000 cc, later 1,100 cc. These engines had two extra cylinders for fo ... |
Saab Variable Compression engine | One exception is the experimental | (SVC). This engine, designed by Saab Automobile, uses a technique that dyn ... |
Ford Kent engine | ... ered and the 1,500 cc "Super Seven 1500" . These were later replaced by the | , better known as the Ford crossflow, in 1,600 cc and 1,700 cc models desi ... |
DB 601 | ... g a single-stage two-speed design directly geared to the engine (unlike the | 's hydraulically clutched version) which led to rather limited altitude pe ... |
Bristol Draco | Further developments of the Pegasus created the fuel-injected | and the diesel cycle Bristol Phoenix, both types being produced in limited ... |
Napier Sabre | ... be a large fighter designed around the large and more powerful 24-cylinder | engine. The work proved useful when Hawker received Specification F.18/37 ... |
DB 605 | ... ch improved power to 1,750 PS (1,730 hp, 1,290 kW) compared to the 1,475 PS | s used on the Me 210C. The engine performance increased the Me 410's maxim ... |
Hull, Massachusetts | ... ide Internet firm business called Chess.net, overlooking Nantasket Beach in | , he spent summers with his uncle in Hull, sleeping on his couch, and spen ... |
Pratt & Whitney JT3D | ... ith turbojet engines, the dominant engine for the Boeing 707 family was the | , a turbofan variant of the JT3C with lower fuel consumption as well as hi ... |
Mitsubishi Kinsei | ... blems. Power was increased by replacing the Hikari with the 626 kW (840 hp) | 3 in a redesigned cowling, and the vertical tail was enlarged to help with ... |
Rudolf Diesel | The word "diesel" is derived from the family name of German inventor | who in 1892 invented the diesel engine |
BMW M10 | ... Repco engine 16 years previously, was based on a road car engine block, the | . Brabham continued to run the Cosworth-powered BT49D in the early part of ... |
Rotax Max | Many people race worldwide in Spec series such as | (a Touch-and-Go class) or those using the Yamaha KT100 engine |
diesel | ... . It is the third most popular vehicle fuel in America, behind gasoline and | . In other parts of the world, propane used in vehicles is known as autoga ... |
Newcomen steam engine | ... ntroduced by Thomas Newcomen before 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived the | quite independently of Savery, but as the latter had taken out a very wide ... |
tripropellant | ... llant ever test-fired in a rocket engine was 542 seconds (5,320 m/s) with a | of lithium, fluorine, and hydrogen. However, this combination is impractic ... |
diesel | ... e is when vehicles in Thailand come to Malaysia to smuggle cheap petrol and | out of the country. The government also looking into restructuring the fue ... |
DB 605 | ... ening the fuselage, designated as lang ("long"). The Me 210C was built with | engines, as well as incorporating the changes to the airframe. The Hungari ... |
Helepolis | ... m long, requiring 1000 men to operate it; and a wheeled siege tower named " | " (or "Taker of Cities") which stood tall and wide, weighing 360,000 pound ... |
General Electric LM2500 | ... l machines. They are also used in the marine industry to reduce weight. The | , General Electric LM6000, Rolls-Royce RB211 and Rolls-Royce Avon are comm ... |
PRV V6 | ... an unusual 90° angle between cylinder banks — a trait shared with the later | . It was a very compact and innovative design that allowed the use of just ... |
Persian wheels | ... doors and windows, and for well construction water pipes, upright posts of | , agricultural implements and shafts, spokes, fellows and yoke of carts. I ... |
AC motor | ... ction of a practical DC motor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the | was developed by Nikola Tesla (Westinghouse) and others. Electrification o ... |
F100 | ... Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the | family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 G ... |
Pratt & Whitney JT4 | ... eeded. Braniff International Airways ordered the higher-thrust version with | A engines, the 707-220. The final major derivative was the 707-320, which ... |
Rolls-Royce RB211 | ... try to reduce weight. The General Electric LM2500, General Electric LM6000, | and Rolls-Royce Avon are common models of this type of machine |
Daimler-Benz DB 603 | ... een the Me 210 and 410 was the introduction of the larger and more powerful | A engines, which improved power to 1,750 PS (1,730 hp, 1,290 kW) compared ... |
Sir Frank Whittle | Coventry has been the home to several pioneers in science and engineering. | , the inventor of the jet engine, was from the city, as was the inventor J ... |
Junkers Jumo 205 | The most-produced aviation diesel engine in history has been the | , which, along with its similar developments from the Junkers Motorenwerke ... |
DC motor | ... ies began very gradually in the 1890s after the introduction of a practical | by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by Ni ... |
Rolls-Royce Vulture | ... in January 1938 which asked for a fighter based on either the Sabre or the | engine. Both engines used 24 cylinders and were designed to be able to del ... |
LM2500 | ... orer, Stena Voyager and Stena Discovery vessels use COGAG setups of twin GE | plus GE LM1600 power for a total of 68 MW. The slightly smaller HSS 900-cl ... |
Diesel engine | | s are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel originally desig ... |
General Electric LM2500 | ... MTU 16V1163 TB83 diesel engine (providing , used for cruising speed), and a | gas turbine (providing , used to reach top speed for short periods). Chakr ... |
General Electric CF6 | ... & Whitney JT9D turbofan engines, whereas the series 10 and 30 engines were | . Before delivery of its aircraft, Northwest's president asked that the "s ... |
Allegro library | ... original Descent (minus the audio code, which was replaced with that of the | ) was released in 1997. The source code to Descent II was subsequently rel ... |
Junkers Jumo 213 | ... based on them were forced to turn to other engines entirely, typically the | |
Thomas Newcomen | The first safe and successful steam power plant was introduced by | before 1712. Newcomen apparently conceived the Newcomen steam engine quite ... |
GE90-115B | ... g 777s and 46 Boeing 787-8s and -9s. All of the 777s will be powered by the | engine, and the 787-8s, by the engine. Deliveries of the 777s began in Mar ... |
Otto engine | See | for more detail |
General Electric LM6000 | ... used in the marine industry to reduce weight. The General Electric LM2500, | , Rolls-Royce RB211 and Rolls-Royce Avon are common models of this type of ... |