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• Cagiva Aletta Oro
  ...acks for the booklet and semimanubri ignition, the tank has a vent for the steam gasoline ending on nut plates, covered by a rubber. The fairings left uncovered on part of the engine, chassis and [[Double Expansion|Expansion]], which is not equipped with spi
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...er uses of this term, and [[rotary engine]] for the World War I [[aircraft engine]]s by that name.'' ...ustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine]] does, but instead uses one or more [[rotor]]s, sometimes called '''rotary
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• Lancia Dialfa-18HP
  | Engine || 3815 cc [[straight-6]] 40 hp ...sed on four cylinder [[Lancia Alfa-12HP|Lancia Alfa]], now with straight-6 engine. With 40 hp it could achieve top speed of 110km/h. The car was built only
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• Cam
  ...he cam can be a simple tooth, as is used to deliver pulses of power to a [[steam hammer]], for example, or an [[Eccentric (mechanism)|eccentric]] disc or ot ...operate the intake and exhaust [[poppet valve|valve]]s of the [[Cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s.
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• Fuel
  ...ting, though peat has been used for [[power generation]], and wood-burning steam [[locomotive]]s were common in times past. ...d [[natural gas]]). The former is widely used in the [[internal combustion engine]] while both are used in power generation.
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• Four-cylinder
  [[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|250px|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]] ...ses are used to directly move a piston, turbine blades, rotor(s), or the [[engine]] itself thus doing useful work.
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• Piston ring
  ...eciprocating engine]] such as an [[internal combustion engine]] or [[steam engine]]. # Regulating engine oil consumption.[http://www.federalmogul.com/korihandbook/en/section_6.htm]
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• Watt's linkage
  ...Watt]] (1736--1819) to constrain the movement of a [[piston]] in a [[steam engine]] to move in a straight line. {{Piston engine configurations}}
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• Horsepower
  ...tomotive]] industry for listing the maximum power of [[internal-combustion engine]]s. ...s first used by [[James Watt]] during a business venture where his [[steam engine]]s replaced [[horse]]s. It was defined that a horse can lift 33,000 [[poun
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• Land speed record
  ...er-Serpollet#Oeuf de Pâques|''Oeuf de Pâques'']] (Easter Egg)||[[Steam car|Steam]] ...flagiconUSA}} [[Fred Marriott]]||[[Stanley Steamer|Stanley Rocket Racer]]||Steam
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• Ship
  Until the application of the [[steam engine]] to ships in the early [[19th century]], oars propelled [[galley]]s or the ...he first half of the [[20th century]] and rendered the reciprocating steam engine out of date, in warships.
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• Tractor
  ...the name is that steam tractors were originally referred to as [[traction engine]]s, eventually becoming a contraction of 'traction' and 'motor') is a devic .... By the [[1920s]], tractors with a gasoline powered [[internal combustion engine]] had become the norm.
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• Two stroke
  ...exhaust) still occur. Thus, there is a power stroke per piston for every engine revolution, instead of every second revolution. Two stroke engines can be a ...cause the engine has twice as many combustions per second as a four stroke engine revolving at the same speed). For handheld devices, they also have the adv
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• Internal-combustion engine
  [[Image:Colorized car engine.jpg|thumb|A colorized [[automobile]] engine]] ...e expanding gases are used to move a piston, turbine blades, rotor, or the engine itself.
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• History of the automobile
  ...although that date is disputed. [[Fuel gas]]-powered [[internal combustion engine]]s first appeared in 1806, while 1885 marked the introduction of gasoline-f ===Steam era===
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• Linkage (mechanical)
  ...hard to invent the [[Parallel motion|Watt linkage]] to support his [[steam engine]]'s piston. [[Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev|Chebyshev]] worked on mechanical li ...le)|automotive suspensions]] and [[bolt cutters]]. The internal combustion engine's piston/rod/crank is a classic four-bar linkage with one degree of freedom
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...[[gasoline]], [[diesel]] or [[methane]], in a modern [[internal combustion engine]], but they produce more pollution than would use of that energy in [[plug- ...the use of [[fuel cell]]s and [[electric motor]]s instead of a traditional engine. Hydrogen reacts with [[oxygen]] inside the fuel cells, which produces [[el
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• Automobile
  ...e''' is a [[wheel]]ed [[passenger]] [[vehicle]] that carries its own [[car engine|motor]]. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designe An automobile powered by the Otto gasoline engine was invented in [[Germany]] by [[Karl Benz]] in 1885. Benz was granted a [[
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• Differential (mechanics)
  Power is supplied from the engine, via the [[gearbox]], to a [[propeller shaft]] (U.S. term: [[driveshaft]]), ...the [[traction]] at that wheel. Unless the load is exceptionally high, the engine and transmission can usually ''supply'' as much torque as necessary, so the
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