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1904: The first overhead valve engine in a mass-production car is fitted to the American Buick Model B sedan. 1904 The first V12 engine is built by Putney Motor Works in London for use in racing boats. The engine is known as the "Craig-Dörwald" engine after Putney's founding partners.
The V-1710-C first flew on 14 December 1936 in the Consolidated A-11A testbed. The V-1710-C6 completed the Army 150 hour Type Test on 23 April 1937, at 1,000 hp (750 kW), the first engine of any type to do so. By then all of the other Army engine projects had been cancelled or withdrawn, leaving the V-1710 as the only modern design available.
The engine has a claim to be the world's first internal combustion engine and contained some features of modern engines including spark ignition and the use of hydrogen gas as a fuel. Starting with a stationary engine suitable to work a pump in 1804, de Rivaz progressed to a small experimental vehicle built in 1807, which was the first wheeled ...
In 1959, a team led by Harry Ihrig built a 15kW fuel cell tractor for Allis-Chalmers which was demonstrated across the US at state fairs. [46] This was the first fuel-cell-powered vehicle. Potassium hydroxide served as the electrolyte. [47] The original AC fuel cell tractor is currently on display at the Smithsonian. [47]
1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine. [20] 1957 – Rambler Rebel announced Electrojector electronic fuel injection option, however no production models were offered with the option. 1964 – Ion engine invented. [21] 1966 – RD-0410 nuclear thermal rocket engine was ground-tested.
Assembly of the first CJ-1000AX engine was completed in December 2017 after an 18-month process. Twenty-four more engines were built to support an airworthiness certification program. The engine was planned to enter service after 2021. [3] In May 2018, the first engine ran in a Shanghai test cell reaching a core speed of 6,600 rpm. [1]
The Model 278A engine was built in 6, 8, 12, and 16-cylinder variants. The Cleveland Diesel Division product line produced it through the late 1950s. [4] [6] The Model 567 was a purpose-built locomotive engine introduced by Cleveland Diesel in 1938. It was a two stroke, uniflow scavenged, roots blown, unit injected engine with intake ports in ...
Car and car engine designers, chronologically by first vehicle/engine built Nicolaus Otto , developer of the first successful compressed charge gaseous fueled internal combustion engine (1860s-70s) Wilhelm Maybach , designed engines starting in the 1870s-80s; the first motorbike (1885), the second internal combustion car (1889)