Combustion Engine

A combustion engine is an engine which generates mechanical power by combustion of a fuel. Combustion engines are of two general types:

  • Internal combustion engine
  • External combustion engine

Famous quotes containing the words combustion and/or engine:

    “The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
    Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
    Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
    And prophesying with accents terrible
    Of dire combustion and confused events,
    New-hatched to the woeful time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)