What Makes An Engine Better? Big Bore vs Long Stroke Bore and stroke cause differences in both power and efficiency. All ...

The engine in your car and most motorcycles today are 4-stroke units that keep lubrication and fuel for combustion as separate parts. The 2-Stroke engine on the other hand requires the mixing of fuel ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that our faithful internal combustion (IC) engines are heading the way of the buggy whip. The lithium-ion battery has arrived, emissions standards are tightening, and ...

As PopMech’s autos editor, I obviously consider myself a car guy. But when it comes to two wheels, the capabilities of modern motorcycles astonish me. We now have road-legal bikes that produce over ...

Here’s a copy of lithograph images (below the video) of the four-stroke cycle from Chapter V, “The Otto Cycle In Practice”, Internal Combustion Engines; Their Principles and Application to Automobile, ...

__ 1877: __The U.S. Patent Office grants German engineer Nicolaus August Otto a patent for an "improvement in gas-motor engines." Internal combustion's time — and timing — have come. More than a ...

Everyone knows that all cars powered by fuel have engines. There are many components inside an engine which allows the engine to generate power from fuel to send rotational energy to the wheels of a ...

To a lot of us, engines are a bit like women. We can usually figure out when something is wrong, but we don't know for sure what makes them tick. That's because engines, like the fairer sex, are ...

Wärtsilä introduced its Intelligent Combustion Monitoring system for two-stroke diesel engines; a system designed to provide ship operators and owners with information that enables operators to ...

Have you ever wondered what goes on under the hood of your car? Everyone knows that fuel goes in, but how does a liquid get converted to energy that can move a car? It’s basically heat energy that ...