In this video, you'll see the different types of engines and propulsion systems used for aircraft, my favorite ones: Turbojet ...

The team at Garage 54 replace aluminum pistons inside of an engine with custom-made plastic pistons. The engine, surprisingly, runs for longer than it has any right to run. Garage 54 specializes in ...

More an ancient tool than a groundbreaking gadget, the fire piston relies on basic chemistry to ignite a campfire with the ...

The earliest piston engines typically had only one cylinder, and at best, produced horsepower measured in single digits. But once you have a working engine, it’s a relatively short step to adding ...

Not pretty, but we’ve done worse ourselves. By 12 minutes in, we were worried it wasn’t going to work again, but it did work although it wasn’t terribly reliable to start. Still, when it worked, it ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

We know gasoline is flammable. It burns. And we know gasoline creates heat energy when it ignites. Heat created by the igniting gasoline and air mixture is what gives us the power necessary to propel ...

Anyone with even the slightest shred of mechanical sympathy has to wince at videos like this one. Redditor Conyers117 recently posted a video of a diesel engine from an International DuraStar work ...