The Animated Engine Thread

i get a kick out of the free energy device videos on yt. They're all okay there's wires underneath the table, but they get creative in the presentations. It's a genre. They aren't even trying to trick you really
 
so XJWMX ive taken 3 years of electrical engeneir ing , and my teacher was obsessed with tesla, Ive ssen all those vids your referring to, do you belive in free energy, or no?
 
guys see the oval piston engine I thought it was pretty amazing, but what blows my mind is raidial enjines, My grandfather was a radial engine mechanic in WWII he was in multiple theaters in Europe, including Italy, the engines he worked on where amazing to me, some had a carb and sigle exhaust for every cylinder, and most animations Ive found only show one "layer" of a radial engine , but they would stack these things on to the point where you would have like a 42 cylinder engine, with a carb for every cly, talk about syncing nightmare lol, Unfortunalty My grandfarther was also in the Korean war and we bombed the crap out of that country leaving 25% of there civilians dead, and he had some serious PSTD from that, and couldn't talk much about things, but from age 6 Ive been an internal engine junki,
 
OMG look at this guys table,
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a 36cyl radial engine


it was big
 
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Check out a WW1 Rotary engine. Not a Wankel. Where the Crankcase rotates and the Crankshaft is stationary.
 
not quite an animated engine, but I really enjoyed watching these guys restore this old tank engine.
 
Back in the late '50s to '60s, as a last-gasp bid to perpetuate internal combustion propeller engines, the aviation industry explored large displacement Wankel engines.

Curtis-Wright RC-19, 1920 cu in.
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The largest version I saw, I can't find on the web.
Imagine an ol' black&white pic of the chamber housing,
With one of the design engineers standing inside it...
 
I guess there is a reason why just about all engines work on just about the same set of principles. Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel had it right back in the 19th century - with minor variations along the way.

Cheers,

Pete

Looking back through this thread and saw this comment and just love it. It really is just flat amazing when you think about all the various things that have been tried with the internal combustion engine over the years since the Otto cycle was derived, and all the brilliant people who have worked on them, that nobody has done anything to supplant it.
 
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