If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...

As the automotive propulsion industry shifts toward electrification, the last-of-breed combustion engines are a stultifyingly similar bunch, focused around the same CAD-optimized 500cc cylinder ...