Search results

• Liquid fuels
  ...y]]; they also must take the shape of their container. Most liquid fuels, in widespread use, are or derived from [[fossil fuels]]; however, there are se ...port. However, others such as [[rocket fuel]] also play an important role in the economy.
  9 KB (1,392 words) - 09:42, 8 October 2009
• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...gine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine]] does, but instead uses one or more [[rot ...'rotary engines'' and only the [[context]] determines which type is meant. In particular, the only commercial producer of (pistonless) rotary engines [[a
  10 KB (1,627 words) - 08:32, 2 October 2009
• Vacuum brake
  ...um brake''' system became almost universal in British train equipment, and in those countries influenced by British practice. It enjoyed a brief period of adoption in the [[United States|USA]], primarily on [[narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge
  12 KB (2,103 words) - 09:12, 7 October 2009
• Automotive terms Italian to English
  | Spark plug wires | cilindri in linea
  5 KB (629 words) - 10:22, 6 December 2012
• Omer
  ...d of mopeds located in [[Reggio Emilia]]. It was an [[Italian]] brand that in 1968 began producing sports [[mopeds]] with a 48 cc ''FB [[Minarelli]]'' tw ...time, but….’ And this is one. About 10 years ago I was relaxing on holiday in France when I heard the unmistakable sound of a number of old motorcycles p
  6 KB (1,027 words) - 20:22, 11 April 2011
• Alfa Romeo GTA
  ...T 1300 Junior|Junior]]) and GTV ([[Alfa Romeo Sprint GT (Veloce)|Veloce]]) in the late 1960s. At the time, Alfa was very active in [[motorsport]]. Autodelta, the racing division of Alfa, developed a car for
  13 KB (1,823 words) - 22:22, 2 July 2012
• Electric car
  ...s is common in electric trains; from chemical energy stored on the vehicle in batteries or diesel fuel; from nuclear energy, on nuclear submarines and ai ...large companies. These forms of transportation are covered in more detail in [[Magnetic_levitation_train|maglev trains]], [[metro]]s, [[tram]]s, [[train
  9 KB (1,323 words) - 08:15, 8 October 2009
• Automobile emissions control
  ...g decades and now they are ubiquitous in industrialised nations and common in most others. ...es in the number of vehicles in use, have meant that the overall reduction in pollution has been much slower.
  10 KB (1,533 words) - 09:02, 8 October 2009
• Catalytic converter
  ...educe the emissions from an internal combustion engine. Most commonly used in an [[automobile]]'s [[exhaust gas|exhaust]] system, catalytic converters ar ...an required, then the system is said to be running lean, and the system is in oxidizing condition. The above two oxidizing reactions (oxidation of CO and
  11 KB (1,638 words) - 08:05, 8 October 2009
• Autobianchi
  ...e]] manufacturer, created jointly by [[Bianchi]], [[Pirelli]] and [[Fiat]] in 1955. Autobianchi produced only a handful of models during its lifetime, wh ...rential (mechanics)|differential]] (final drive) that has become prevalent in its cars today. This car competed with the [[Innocenti]]-built [[Mini]], wh
  12 KB (1,756 words) - 01:16, 7 February 2012
• Internal-combustion engine
  ...amber causes a rapid rise in [[temperature]] and [[pressure]] of the gases in the chamber, which are permitted to expand. The expanding gases are used to ...he [[combustion chamber]], and that the fuel release sufficient [[energy]] in the form of [[heat]] upon [[combustion]] to make use of the engine practica
  20 KB (3,085 words) - 13:24, 8 October 2009
• Motor oil
  ...oving [[engine]] parts and often include cleaning and corrosion inhibition in internal combustion engines. The major fraction of the majority of motor o ...utomobile]]s, [[boats]], [[lawn mowers]], [[trains]], [[airplanes]], etc. In engines there are contacting parts which move against each other at high sp
  19 KB (3,054 words) - 08:52, 8 October 2009
• Compression ratio
  In a piston engine it is the [[ratio]] between the volume of the [[Cylinder (e ...f its stroke containing 1000 cc of air (900 cc in the cylinder plus 100 cc in the combustion chamber). When the piston has moved up to the top of its str
  16 KB (2,479 words) - 14:53, 25 September 2009
• Alfa Romeo TZ
  | Wheelbase || 2200&nbsp;mm (86.6 in.) | Length || 3950&nbsp;mm (155.5 in.) TZ1<br>3680&nbsp;mm (144.9 in.) TZ2
  12 KB (1,789 words) - 07:00, 16 April 2011
• Carburetor
  ...rnal-combustion engine]]. Carburetors are still found in small engines and in older or specialized [[automobile]]s such as those designed for [[stock car ...st ubiquitous, partly because a downdraft unit is ideal for [[V engine]]s. In Europe, the side-draft replaced downdraft as underbonnet space decreased an
  27 KB (4,310 words) - 17:26, 17 May 2011
• Tire
  ...vehicles]] and is used to dampen the oscillations caused by irregularities in the road surface, to protect the wheel from [[wear and tear]] as well as to [[Image:Tire_repair_shop.JPG|thumb|300px|left|A tire repair shop in Vologda, Russia. The text painted says "Tire mounting" (''Shinomontazh'')]]
  30 KB (4,915 words) - 10:59, 5 March 2017
• Standards body
  ...anizations''' are bodies, organizations and institutions that produce, and in some cases measure, standards. ...required for a product to be either certified by a standards body or sold in the marketplace (e.g. flammability standards for children’s clothing, rec
  16 KB (2,479 words) - 12:16, 8 October 2009
• Motobi
  ...a family row which saw [[Giuseppe Benelli]] walk out of the family factory in 1948 and cross the street to found his own rival marque, whose products wer ...ose mother, Teresa, had set them up in the motorcycle repair business back in 1911, a prelude to them attaching the [[Benelli]] badge to their own range
  16 KB (2,640 words) - 11:43, 21 July 2012
• Motorcycle speedway
  ...rface in granite, shale, brick granules or similar unbound material rolled in on the base ground". Competitors use this surface to slide their machines s ...g the [[Speedway World Cup]] whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the [[Speedway Grand Prix]] events is pronounced the Speedway world champio
  34 KB (5,397 words) - 08:53, 7 October 2009
• Alfa Romeo Giulia
  ...ulia|Giulia]] [[Sedan (car)|Berlina car]]. These appealing cars were made in a wide variety of models over a period of 13 years, so they provide a lot o ...feature the four cylinder, all-light-alloy [[Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine]] in various cubic capacities from 1290 cc to 1962 cc, all with two valves per c
  34 KB (4,853 words) - 12:32, 13 January 2013

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)