The rotary engine has been absent on the frontline for quite some time, and it's on the way back. But not with Mazda.

From spinning rotary engines and their brutal side effects to the massive multi-row radials that powered bombers and fighters, this episode traces how engineers chased power through clever compromises ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Language is an imperfect medium, but it's what we've got, so let's go with it. Determining the swept volume of inventor Felix Wankel's rotary engine can generate more arguments than claiming what a GT ...

In order to understand the value of the correct spark plugs in a rotary engine, you first must understand a bit of how a ...

Launched in the late 1960s, the Ro 80 wasn't just the world's first mass-produced sedan with rotary power, but also one of the most innovative production vehicles of its era. Follow us: The rotary ...

The Goda Bankin AZ-1 uses the venerable 13B rotary engine, which is famous for powering many Mazda RX-7s across several ...

Displacement: 10.9 L (664.29 cu. in.) Bore and Stroke: 105 mm (4.13 in) x 140 mm (5.51 in) Societe des Moteurs Le Rhone of Paris began manufacturing air cooled rotary engines in 1910. Its rotary was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model was filed with the ...