Engines

Resources

general
- Engine Trends, L. Allison, Software Communication Group
- Structure and Principle of Engines, National Maritime Research Institute
- The Engine Indicator, The Canadian Museum of Making, Cochrane, Alberta
hurricanes
- Hurricanes: Tempests in a Greenhouse, Kerry Emanuel, Physics Today, Vol. 59 No. 8 (August 2006)
hybrid
- Doubly Efficient Electric Hybrid & Combined Heat & Power Systems, Physics Today, November 2000
reciprocating
- diesel-cycle
  - US Patent 542,846, Method of and Apparatus for Converting Heat into Work, Rudolph Diesel (1895)
  - US Patent 608,845, Internal-Combustion Engine, Rudolph Diesel (1898)
  - Wärtsilä RT-flex96C / RTA96C
- miller-cycle
  - The Inside Story on the Miller-Cycle Engine, Mazda
  - How does a Miller-cycle engine work? How Stuff Works
  - Miller Cycle Gas Engine for Co-Generation Systems, Tokyo Gas
- otto-cycle
  - Deutz AG, founded by N.A. Otto in 1864 as N.A. Otto & Cie
  - Four-Stroke Cycle, University of Leipzig (includes Java simulation)
  - How a Car Engine Works, How Stuff Works, Marshall Brain
  - Nicolaus August Otto Museum
  - US Patent 194,047, Improvement in Gas Motor Engines, Nicolaus Otto (1877)
- rankine-cycle (steam)
  - Steam Engine Library, University of Rochester (A collection of historical documents relating to the history of the steam engine.)
- stirling-cycle
  - A Stirling Idea, Spinoff Magazine, NASA
  - External Combustion Engines, WrenchTEN
  - Little Engine Pages, Roy Rice & Richard Egge
  - Moteurs Stirling, Daniel Lyonnet
  - Project Prometheus, NASA
  - Stirling Engine, Koichi Hirata
  - Stirling Engine-Refrigerator: Rich Pedagogy from Applied Physics, Randall D. Peters, Mercer University
  - Stirling Engine Society USA (SESUSA)
  - Tin Can Stirling Engine Plans, Henry Kroll
  - Specification of Rev. Dr. Stirling's Invention [UK Patent]. Reproduced in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. London: Ballantyne Press. No. 2 (1886): 831–838, 835.
rotary
- otto-cycle (wankel)
  - History of Rotary, Mazda
  - rotorhead.ca, rotary resources and more
  - Der Wankelmotor und sein Erfinder, Felix Wankel
- brayton-cycle (turbine)
  - Foster Power Generation, used turbines!
video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
  - Engine of Nature, The Carnot engine, part one, beginning with simple steam engines.

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