These are ten of the most influential engines in automotive history. Each one of them made waves for rather different reasons ...

The history of the first Hemi engine from Dodge is pretty straightforward, but it turns out that the tale behind the first engines with hemispherical combustion chambers requires going down a much ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

When he wasn't designing warships, John Ericsson was dreaming up solar technology. The Swedish American inventor, credited with the screw propeller and the first ironclad vessel in the U.S. Navy, ...

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Alexander Van Holstyn’s Reflective Pulse Engine, a spiral-chambered turbine, fires each chamber sequentially to maximize energy potential. Currently, the engine is under development. The naturally ...