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• Crankpin
  * In a [[radial engine]] each crankpin serves an entire row of cylinders. ** All single cylinder engines.
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• Anzani
  ...the Italian [[Alessandro Anzani]] (1877-1956), which produced proprietary engines for aircraft, [[Automobile|cars]], boats, and motorcycles in factories in B ...ey were building his engines he designed a hydrofoil powered by one of his engines and propellers.
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• Avions Voisin
  ...in 1919 started produced cars using [[Knight Engine|Knight]] sleeve valve engines at Issy-les-Moulineaux, an industrial suburb to the South West of Paris. Re ''Voisin engine layouts used:(Knight engines)''
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• Engine configuration
  For many [[automobile]] engines, the term '''block''' is interchangeable with engine in this context, for e ...features and consequent performance characteristics are also regarded as V engines, purely because of their shape. Similarly, the Volkswagen [[VR6 engine]] is
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• X engine
  ...Viewed head-on, this would appear as an X. X engines were often [[coupled engines]] derived from existing powerplants. ...emely uncommon, primarily due its weight and complexity as compared to a [[radial engine]]. However, it was more compact (per number of cylinders) than a V-e
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• Air-cooled engine
  '''Air-cooled engines''' rely on the circulation of air directly over hot parts of the [[engine]] In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat generated (around 44%) escapes through the
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• Straight engine
  ...ch have support bearings between every two pistons. Although six-cylinder engines are inherently balanced, the four-cylinder models are inherently off balanc ...as engine|Atlas]]'' family includes straight-4, straight-5, and straight-6 engines.
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• Petrol engine
  ...air are usually pre-mixed before compression (although some modern petrol engines now use cylinder-direct petrol injection). ...ngines) it is done by electronically controlled [[fuel injection]]. Petrol engines run at higher speeds than Diesels partially due to their lighter pistons, c
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• Radial engine
  ...during the 1930s, before the introduction of modern-type opposed-cylinder engines. ...and lifters on a cam plate which is concentric with the crankshaft. A few engines utilize [[sleeve valve]]s instead.
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...anded or "exhausted" gases are removed from the cylinder by this [[Stroke (engines)|stroke]]. The exception is the Stirling engine, which repeatedly heats and ...r less in model engines up to several thousand cubic centimetres in ships' engines.
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• Opposed piston engine
  ...org}}</ref> They should not be confused with [[flat engine]]s. Though flat engines are sometimes referred to as horizontally opposed, they are very different ...geared together, or even 3 geared crankshafts in the Napier Deltic diesel engines. The Deltic uses three crankshafts serving three banks of double-ended cyli
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• W engine
  ...ds, the W3 configuration was changed to a 120&deg; angle, three cylinder [[radial engine]] configuration as the original W3 engine's replacement. ...W12 engine]]. [[Lorraine-Dietrich|Lorraine]] built the 12Ed and 18Ka aero-engines of 450 horsepower (336 kW; 456 PS) and 650 horsepower (485 kW; 659 PS) in
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...the eminent engineer [[Henry Maudslay]] to make marine internal combustion engines. He was joined by his sons Cyril and Reginald Walter but the latter soon le The engines did not sell very well and in 1902 they made their first engine intended fo
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• Connecting rod
  ==Internal combustion engines== ...down and rotates around the [[crankshaft]]. Conrods, especially in racing engines, may be called "billet" rods, if they are machined out of a solid billet of
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• Block heater
  ...re the block heater was invented, people utilized various means of warming engines before starting them, such as pouring hot water on the engine block or drai ...s flew with flight engineers who were responsible for preparing the radial engines for shutdown and startup in order to mitigate the effects of sub-zero tempe
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• Rotary engine
  ...d [[cylinder block]] with rotating [[crankshaft]] as with a conventional [[radial engine]], the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block r ...d a substantial [[power-to-weight ratio]] advantage over more conventional engines. Another advantage was improved cooling, as the rotating cylinder block cr
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• Franz Josef Popp
  ...nwerke very much needed a chief engineer with new ideas on making aircraft engines. ...ment. The product range of BMW AG was expanded and soon it extended beyond engines for the aircraft industry to include motorcycles as broader sections of the
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...]]s and many [[gas turbine]]s are also very definitely internal combustion engines. ...ke. The most significant distinction between '''modern internal combustion engines''' and the early designs is the use of compression and in particular of in-
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• Sleeve valve
  ...system which, after extensive development, saw substantial use in aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre and Bristol Hercules and Centaurus, }}</ref> and later adopted by Bristol for its radial aircraft engines, used a single sleeve which rotated around a timing axle set at 90 degrees
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• Gas turbine
  *1895: Three 4-ton 100&nbsp;kW Parsons radial flow generators were installed in Cambridge Power Station, and used to powe As with all cyclic heat engines, higher combustion temperature means greater [[fuel efficiency|efficiency]]
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