Most modern gasoline and diesel-powered engines found in the cars and trucks seen on today's roadways rely on the four-cycle-engine principles developed in the late 1800s by Nikolaus Otto, Gottlieb ...

American publisher Charles Knight was not at all impressed with his new 1901 Knox ‘gasoline runabout’. Like some other cars of the era, its four-stroke engine relied on a single valve to permit both ...

I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

Sleeve Valve Engine The sleeve valve engine is an intriguing alternative to the poppet valve engine, using a rotating or sliding sleeve to control the engine’s intake and exhaust. This design was ...

Bore and Stroke: 146 mm (5.75 in.) x 165 mm (6.5 in.) In 1926 Bristol began studies to integrate the Burt-McCollum sleeve valve concept into selected new engine designs. The sleeve valve, which moved ...