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Wankel Engine

This is a rotary internal combustion engine perfected by Felix Wankel during the 1950s and 60s. This engine has two-thirds less moving parts than the traditional piston-powered engine used in all diesel and gasoline engines sold in America. Oddly enough, power is derived from an almost triangle-shaped rotor spinning within an almost oval housing. The advantages are very smooth operation, more reliability than a standard piston engine and greater ability to utilize multiple fuels in the future.