PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to provide manufacturers of motor vehicles, equipment, and machinery with an unconventional engine design with a number of positive attributes," ...

All Nicolaus Otto wanted to do was make enough money to marry his wife, settle down and begin a career. He was 26 and a seemingly happy young man who was content to sell sugar, rice, coffee or tea ...

Across more than a century of automotive history, a handful of engines have earned reputations for surviving abuse, neglect, ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

PITTSBURGH , Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved engine design that would utilize vaporized aluminum and oxygen to generate thrust," said an inventor, from Pollocksville, N.C.

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While it's fairly common knowledge to enthusiasts that the first jet fighter was the speedy Messerschmitt Me 262, introduced in 1944, the invention of the turbine jet itself may not be as widely known ...