Miscellaneous Engines
There are a large number of unusual varieties of piston engines that have various claimed advantages, many of which see little if any current use:
- Free-piston engine
- Swing-piston engine
- IRIS engine
- Bourke engine
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Famous quotes containing the word engines:
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
—Thomas McGuane (b. 1939)