In this video, we explore opposed piston engines, focusing on the Achates Power engine and the Asender engine. Opposed piston ...

While there have been many unusual engine designs over the years, there haven't been many advancements involving the inner workings of the piston engine, except for higher-quality components, since ...

Converting the ignition of a fuel-air mixture into usable mechanical energy lies at the core of a dizzying number of internal ...

The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way. Honda pioneered oval piston technology in the 1970s for four-stroke racing ...

Flat engines are horizontally-opposed piston engines, and this group includes Boxer engines, but not opposed-piston engines like the Cummins 14.3L Advanced Combat Engine (ACE) designed to power tanks.

Unless you drive a Wankel rotary, your combustion engine vehicle has pistons, and each of those pistons has three rings. Why ...

Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building air-powered engines. After first building a simple air-powered piston engine, ...

Depending on the size and design, engines can be made up of anywhere from between 2,000 and 15,000 individual parts, per Spinny Post. This is important to understand, because some seemingly simpler ...

One-of-a-kind 1913 prototype Bullock Creeping Grip crawler tractor with its rare Heer opposed-piston engine gets cranking. Watch at Equipment World.