Click to open image viewer. In 1925, Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design. Believing this technology ...

Automobiles were still in their relative infancy in 1905, but they had been growing more popular for years. There was a problem, though: they were extremely noisy. One cause of the noise were the ...

I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

The internal combustion engine, despite being a century-and-a-half old, is still an impressive marvel of engineering. There are several variations of engine design that have been experimented with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Automobiles were still in their relative infancy in 1905, but they had been growing more popular for years. There was a problem, ...