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I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...
Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design in 1925. Believing this technology might replace poppet valves ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1925, Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single ...
Gabriel Voisin was an aviation pioneer who progressed into the car business after the First World War using Knight-type sleeve-valve engines. Designed by American Charles Yale Knight yet perfected in ...
SLEEVE-VALVE ENGINES MAY NOW BE obscure automotive history, but they were once popular powerplants worldwide and could be found in the English Daimler and Belgian Minerva, among others. The best-known ...
The internal combustion engine, despite being a century-and-a-half old, is still an impressive marvel of engineering. There are several variations of engine design that have been experimented with ...
The passion of motor makers to improve their product, and do it in a hurry too, has created in Detroit deep interest in an lleged “mystery car,” which is said to be revolutionary in design and about ...
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