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How a Single Swedish Submarine Defeated the US Navy
Real Engineering
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Nissan revolution: could new petrol engine make diesel obsolete?
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete. The new engine uses variable compression technology, which Nissan engineers say allows it at any given moment to choose an optimal compression ratio for combustion - a key factor in the trade-off between power and efficiency in all gasoline-fuelled engines.
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Can Dan Gurney’s Moment-Cancelling engine breathe new life into internal combustion?
American car racing legend Dan Gurney's patented Moment-Cancelling Four-Stroke (MC4S) engine features two counter-rotating crankshafts and an innovative intake system. With it, Gurney is looking to improve reliability and efficiency and cut emissions, all in a single design.
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Animated Engines - Two Cylinder Stirling
Animated illustration and description of the Alpha configuration Stirling engine.
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Rolls-Royce signs $1bn engine deal with Air China
Engineering group to furnish airline’s new Boeing Dreamliner fleet with Trent 1000 engines.
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This Tiny Engine Could Make Leaf Blowers Sound Less Like Jets
Big engines like the 707-horsepower monster Dodge put in the Challenger Hellcat or Volvo’s little four-cylinder that makes 425 ponies get all the attention these days. But there are millions of tiny engines doing tiny things (think garden trimmers, leaf blowers, that sort of thing) that we never give much thought to. But just as there are engineers pondering how to make big engines more powerful, so too are there engineers pondering how to make tiny engines more powerful.
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