Internal combustion engines are a relatively new development in terms of human history. A lot of people still alive today ...

Reciprocating engines in sizes from a few kilowatts to several MW are used to generate electricity by utilities, hospitals, manufacturing plants and commercial buildings.

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Read this article by Super Street Magazine about the lower end portion of an engine and its contents and how they make up the reciprocating assembly.

In short, D-B engineers say that they have a Wankel engine which could equal or better the conventional reciprocating engine in all departments.

The arrangement provided a much shorter crankcase, a stiffer and simpler crankshaft, and a more compact engine than the 12-cylinder "V" construction of other high-performance engines of the period.

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Engineers based them on reciprocating pistons and cylinders that were previously used with steam engines and experimented with different fuels and ignition sources.

The crankcase contains the crankshaft of the engine. This converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into a rotary output motion via the connecting rod coupling the piston and the crankshaft. The ...

Additionally, while there are several custom shops out there that specially build four-rotor engines, supposedly no one has ever built one with Billet alloy crankcase blocks.