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Another 'new' engine design...
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Another 'new' engine design...
On Mar 16, 5:10*pm, "Dan D" wrote:
http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/a...pposed-piston-... There is a long history of "pull-rod" opposed piston engines like this one. Try Googling "DOXFORD OPPOSED PISTON" to see some huge stationary engines using this principal. |
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Another 'new' engine design...
On Mar 16, 5:10*pm, "Dan D" wrote:
http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/a...pposed-piston-... New? With pistons? The piston and cylinder idea has seen numerous layouts, but we're still using pistons and cylinders. The "new" layouts mostly just add complexity. Pistons and cylinders were invented to pump water about 500 years ago. Maybe even before that. Not much "new" about that, is there? When I was a kid, there was a "new, revolutionary" engine in about every other issue of Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics. I don't see any of them in cars or airplanes, except for the occasional Wankel. All the others, hundreds of them, never made it. Our cars and trucks are still using the inline-cylinder concept, driving a single crankshaft, four-stroke, exactly like Henry Ford's Model T engines of 1912 or whenever. Or the Wright Brother's 1903 engine. Oh, sure, our engines run at a higher RPM and have higher compression and have computerized ignition and fuel controls and last longer, but they're still the same ancient piston-and-cylinder four- stroke affairs. Dan |
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