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The turbines that propel jets through the air can be traced back to an idea originated by Hero of Alexandria in the first century AD. Find out what you do with an engine that pre-dates steam power and manned air flight by roughly two thousand years. More »
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What happens deep inside that four-stroke engine inside your car, truck or jet when you run it? This silent, elegant video was taken inside one such engine, and reveals all. More »
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Here's the naughtiest view I've ever seen of the spot between two cylinder blocks in a 1940s airplane engine. Specifically, it's a shot Elsie took of the Daimler Benz engine, which helped power the Messerschmitt 110 that Rudolf Hess flew to the U.K. in 1941. This precisely the kind of mechanical engineering porn that's going to become popular when artificial intelligences and autonomous robots form a target market for smut peddlers on the internet. Want to see what else the fully-sentient spawn of your iPod is going to search the net for late at night? More »
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