Eliminating connecting rods and much of the crankshaft would have advantages in terms of reducing friction and weight in ...

Piston powered engines turn reciprocating energy (the up and down motion of the pistons) into rotational energy. Wankel flies in the face of all this. A simplified Wankel engine has only two ...

The piston engine is also called a reciprocating engine, since its pistons move up and down (or side-to-side) to convert the chemical energy in gasoline into linear motion. That linear motion is ...

Reciprocating engines are engines that use one or more pistons to convert pressure into rotational motion. They convert the heat and pressure released during the combustion of a fuel mixed with ...