Most Japanese performance car enthusiasts are familiar with the 13B twin-rotor engine Mazda equipped the RX-7 and RX-8 with. But unless you've owned and modified an RX of some type, chances are you ...

In the early 1970s, Spanish inventor Arturo Estévez Varela introduced a pioneering engine powered by water — a concept that held the potential to revolutionize automotive technology. Despite its ...

The engine that bears his name earned him a fortune in royalties, and the German engineer and inventor Rudolf Diesel was apparently doing well when he boarded a steamship from Belgium to England on ...

For more than a century, the Diesel engine has been the backbone of heavy industry. The internal combustion engine that ignites fuel by heating it up through compression powers everything from ...

The automotive industry has largely depended on gasoline and diesel engines to power various vehicles for over a century. Between the two, diesel engines are more efficient due to several reasons, ...

FOUR CORNERS — As gas prices continue to rise, who wouldn’t like to improve mileage? Throw in less pollution and lower maintenance costs and the inventor of such a device could have the next ...

In a world propelled by combustion engines, gas turbines and nuclear reactors, the steam engine may seem like a relic of the past. But without this game-changing invention, the modern world would be a ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

The guy who invented the rotary engine was a Jew-hating militaristic Nazi who was so ardently fascist he got thrown out of his own party, twice. Yes, Felix Wankel was a Nazi nutjob. Felix Wankel was a ...

Part 1: The rotary engine’s origin story and how Mazda became synonymous with the unique design. Most Japanese performance car enthusiasts are familiar with the 13B twin-rotor engine Mazda equipped ...