Rotary piston engine (8813 bytes)
1: :''Alternative meaning: [[Wankel engine]] or [[Quasiturbine]]''
3: ...ombustion engine|internal combustion]] [[aircraft engine]] in the early years of the [[20th century]]. It ...
5: ...engine is simple. It is a standard [[Otto cycle]] engine, but instead of having an orthodox fixed [[cylind...
7: ...s base on a different principle than the [[Wankel engine]], but can be used in similar applications.
9: ...on. Vibration was such a serious problem on early engines that a flywheel would otherwise have to be added...

Piston (1976 bytes)
1: [[image:piston.jpg|thumb|right|piston + connecting rod]]
2: In general, a '''piston''' is a sliding [[plug]] that fits closely inside...
6: ==Internal combustion engine==
7: ...he piston is an important component of a [[piston engine]] and of [[hydraulics|hydraulic]] and [[pneumatic...
9: ...iesel engine|Diesel]] [[engine]], the head of the piston forms one wall of an expansion chamber inside the...

Piston valve (255 bytes)
1: ...]]s, [[tuba]]s, and the like. An alternate to the piston valve is the [[rotary valve]].

Walter Piston (6081 bytes)
1: '''Walter Hamor Piston Jr.''' ([[January 20]], [[1894]] - [[November 12]...
3: ...ily moved to [[Boston]]. Walter Jr. trained as an engineer at the Mechanical Arts High School in Boston, b...
5: ...on and music history with Edward Burlingame Hill. Piston often worked as an assistant to the various music...
7: At about that time Piston joined the Navy Band and learned to play more ins...
9: ...taly. At the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Paris, Piston studied composition and counterpoint with [[Nadia...

Opposed piston (1996 bytes)
1: ... concept proposed by Frank Stelzer, see [[Stelzer engine]].''
3: ...e in which the cylinders are double-ended, with a piston at each end and no cylinder-head.
5: ...d most remarkably in the [[Napier Deltic]] diesel engines, which used three crankshafts to serve three ban...
7: ...ion engines, notably [[Fairbanks-Morse]] [[diesel engine]]s used in US [[submarines]] both conventional an...
9: ...ston engines are essentially [[two-stroke cycle]] engines, as there is no cylinder head for the valves of ...

H engine (1775 bytes)
1: An '''H engine''' (or H-block) is an [[engine configuration]] in which the [[cylinder]]s are al...
3: ...rs, their compact size being useful as [[aircraft engine]]s where their small size allows for better [[aer...
7: ...rmula One engine, which was a major failure. This engine was powerful but heavy and unreliable, had low to...
8: *The [[Lycoming]] [[H 2470]] [[hyper engine]], that did not go into production.
9: ...gger|Dagger]] and [[Napier Sabre|Sabre]] airplane engines. Unlike the BRM and the Lycoming, the Sabre even...

U engine (853 bytes)
1: ...ine]] made up of two separate [[straight engine]] engines (complete with separate crankshafts) joined by [...
3: ... interrest is to share common parts with Straight engines.
5: ... and [[Breguet]] of France, who both intended the engine for aircraft use.
7: ...gheera|Bagheera]] prototype powered by a 2,6 L U8 engine made of two Simca 1000 Rallye 2 [[Straight-4]] co...
9: [[Category:Piston engine configurations]]

GM I3 engine (132 bytes)
3: The '''LY9''' was a 1.0 L [[I3]] engine produced from [[1985]] to [[1986]].
7: [[Category:GM engines|I3]]

GM LT engine (5467 bytes)
1: ...family was replaced with the all-aluminum [[GM LS engine]] family in the [[2000s]].
3: All LT engines displace 5.7 liters and have cast-iron blocks wi...
7: See the [[GM Small-Block engine]] page for information on the first generation of...
11: ...1995 thanks to a better [[intake manifold]]. The engine was not used in any other vehicle.
15: ... distributor which is located on the front of the engine behind the gear-driven water pump.

PC Engine GT (441 bytes)
1: ... tuner was available. It could play all of the PC Engine HuCard games, yet had low battery life. The North...

GM LS engine (5774 bytes)
1: ...but is all-aluminum and has 6-bolt mains. The LS engine has been the sole powerplant of the [[Chevrolet C...
5: ... replaced with a square four-bolt design, and the pistons are flat instead of domed. Even the cylinder fi...
9: ...-output LS6. The LS1 was on the [[Ward's 10 Best Engines]] list for 1998.
19: ...ries. The C6 Corvette Z06 will get a new [[GM LS engine#LS7|LS7]].
21: The LS6 shares its block with the [[GM LS1 engine]], but other changes were made. Improved intake,...

The Little Engine That Could (3512 bytes)
1: ...gine that Could''''', also known as '''''The Pony Engine''''', is a [[moral]]istic [[child]]ren's story th...
5: [[image:littleenginethatcould.jpg|thumb|320px|right|Illustrations for ...
6: ...chugging on with his motto ''I-think-I-can'', the engine succeeds in pulling the train over the mountain.
12: ...f the great heavy train. As is went on the little engine kept bravely puffing faster and faster, "I think ...
14: ... of the grade, that had so discouraged the larger engines, it went more slowly, but still kept saying, "I-...

Engine (2396 bytes)
1: ...anings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'.
3: ...ical computing device was called the [[difference engine]].
5: ...chanical work]], follow-ons to the original steam engine. In most cases the work is supplied by exerting a...
7: ...n a better [[specific impulse]] than for [[rocket engine]]s.
9: Air-breathing engines include:

W engine (2431 bytes)
1: ...resemble the letter '''W''' in the same way a [[V engine]] resembles the letter '''V'''. There have been ...
4: ...r abandoned the project. An experimental [[W18]] engine was produced by [[Volkswagen]] for [[Bugatti]]'s ...
8: ...ir [[W12]]. It combined two narrow-angle [[VR6]] engines around a single [[crankshaft]] for a total of fo...
10: ...ntal GT]] - though in the latter application, the engine has been highly modified by Bentley and fitted wi...
12: ...row (15°) angle between bank pairs makes this engine resemble a [[V12]] in that it has just two cylind...

V engine (1609 bytes)
3: ...h and weight compared to an equivalent [[straight engine]].
7: ...the advantages of the V engine and the [[straight engine]] (primarily in the form of compactness) as well ...
9: It is common for V engines to be described with V''#'' notation, where ''#'...
23: * [[Flat engine]]
24: * [[Straight engine]]

PC Engine (13740 bytes)
1: The '''PC Engine''' was a [[video game console]] released by [[Ni...
7: ...ng to get into the lucrative game market. The PC Engine was and is the smallest video game console, due p...
9: ...the equal to Nintendo's [[Super Famicom]], the PC Engine's contemporary competition.
11: ...nd the additional CD ROM capabilities gave the PC Engine a very wide variety of software, with several hun...
13: Several of the PC Engine systems and its US- and Europe-released counterpa...

Kestrel engine (195 bytes)
1: Engines named '''[[Kestrel]]''' include a
3: * [[Rolls-Royce Kestrel|Aircraft piston engine]], built by [[Rolls-Royce]]
4: * [[Kestrel (rocket engine)|Rocket engine]] built by [[SpaceX]]

Graphics engine (525 bytes)
1: A '''Graphics engine''' may refer to:
2: *[[Game engine]]: a physics model typically implemented in softw...
3: *[[Graphics engine (hardware)]]: a specialized computer hardware dev...
4: *[[Graphics engine (SGI)]]: a graphics engine made by SGI and used in various lines of graphica...

Cylinder (engine) (1100 bytes)
1: ...ng|frame|right|A piston and cylinder from a steam engine]]
3: ...ndition is one of the main factors of how long an engine will last.
5: ...engine]] cylinder, the bottom sliding part is the piston, and the top sliding part is a [[poppet valve|val...
9: [[Category:Engine technology]]

Engine Alliance (720 bytes)
1: ..., sell, and support a family of modern technology engines for new high-capacity, long-range aircraft.
3: The main application for such an engine, the [[Engine Alliance GP7200|GP7200]], was originally the [[B...
5: ...s-Royce Trent|Rolls-Royce Trent 900]], the launch engine for the aircraft.
11: [[Category:Aircraft engine manufacturers]]

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