X-Nico

unusual facts about internal combustion



Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum

Motorcycles representing 50 manufacturers are displayed, including a reproduction of the 1885 Daimler Einspur, the first gasoline, internal combustion motorcycle, and an 1894 Hildebrand & Wolfmüller, the first production motorcycle.

Trochilics

The array of Trochilic engine ranging from Stirling cycle, internal combustion, to high-pressure gas or steam and with adaptive alterations to gaseous or fluid pumping.

Valve cover racing

Valve cover racing is a competitive event similar to the Pinewood derby, but vehicles are made from a valve cover from an internal combustion car engine, rather than of wood blocks, .


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Albone Glacier

It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys (1960–61) and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Dan Albone, English designer of the Ivel tractor, the first successful tractor with an internal combustion engine.

Carb

Carburetor, a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine

Claude Niépce

The two brothers worked together on a number of projects including an innovative hydraulic engine, the Pyréolophore the world's first internal combustion engine, as well as pioneering work in photography.

Cloud condensation nuclei

The particles may be composed of dust or clay, soot or black carbon from grassland or forest fires, sea salt from ocean wave spray, soot from factory smokestacks or internal combustion engines, sulfate from volcanic activity, phytoplankton or the oxidation of sulfur dioxide and secondary organic matter formed by the oxidation of VOCs.

Electravia Electro Trike

It was first developed by taking the existing DTA Alizés carriage and its Ellipse Fuji wing and replacing the internal combustion engine with an electric motor.

Hippomobile

In 1863 the Hippomobile with a hydrogen gas-fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont, covering about eleven miles in less than three hours.

Lifter

Tappet, part of an internal combustion engine that actuates a poppet valve through rocker arms and pushrods

Monobloc

Monobloc engine: an internal combustion engine with the cylinder head and block formed as one unit.

Nikolaus Otto

According to recent historical studies, the Italian inventors Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patented a first working efficient version of an internal combustion engine in 1854 in London (pt. Num. 1072).

Noise Free America

# Quieting jet aircraft: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should set stricter noise thresholds for existing private and commercial internal combustion engine airplanes and mandate significantly quieter engines for future aircraft of this type.

Priestman

William Dent Priestman, Quaker and combustion engine pioneer (1847–1936), inventor of the first British internal combustion engine to burn a fuel heavier than petrol (1885)

Robot combat

Halon - a specific fire extinguishing gas effective as a weapon in stopping internal combustion engines.

Silencer

Muffler, a device for reducing the amount of noise emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine

Sunbeam Arab

After submission to the Internal Combustion Engine Committee of the National Advisory Committee Sunbeam received an order for 1,000 in March 1917, increased to 2,000 in June 1917 as well as another 2,160 to be built by Austin Motors (1,000), Lanchester Motor Company (300), Napier & Son (300) and Willys Overland (560) in the United States of America.

Timeline of heat engine technology

1807 - Franco/Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built the De Rivaz engine, powered by the internal combustion of hydrogen and oxygen mixture and used it to power a wheeled vehicle.

VVT

Variable valve timing, a mechanism to adjust the timing of a valve lift in an internal combustion engine

Wankel

Wankel engine, a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design instead of reciprocating pistons