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34 Reciprocating Engine Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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The Wankel rotary engine was invented by the German engineer Felix Wankel . This example powered the NSU 'Spider' motor car of 1965. The engine...

Wankel rotary engine, 1965.

Dr. Hugo Junkers started development of his Diesel aircraft engines in a small factory at Dessau, Germany in 1911. His early engines functioned on...

Junkers Jumo 207 D-V2 In-Line 6 Diesel Engine

Engraving of Richard Arkwright's carding machine, invented in 1775. Carding is the process used to comb and distentangle fibres in preparation for...

�Arkwright�s Complete Carding Engine�, 1873.

Model . The Viscount was the first aircraft powered by gas turbine engines to enter regular airline service. The first flight took place on 18th...

Vickers Viscount airliner, 1953.

This engine is able to convert the reciprocating motion of the pistons into the required rotary motion of the crankshaft. The rotation is obtained by...

Wooler motorcycle engine, 1950.

Detail. Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today provide most of the world's...

Parsons� steam turbine-generator, 1884.

Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today provide most of the world's electricity. It...

Parsons� steam turbine-generator, 1884.

Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today provide most of the world's electricity. It...

Parsons� steam turbine-generator, 1884.

Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today provide most of the world's electricity. It...

Parsons� steam turbine-generator, 1884.

Drawing made from particulars supplied by Messrs C A Parsons and Co. Charles Parsons promoted the turbine as a smaller and more efficient alternative...

Parsons Steam Turbo-Generator 60 KW, 1901.

Shown with spare guide ring and fan. Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today...

Parsons original Steam Turbine generator, 1884.

Detail. Made by Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Co, this machine was the forerunner of the turbo-generators that today provide most of the world's...

Parsons� steam turbine-generator, 1884.

The purpose of the carding engine was to loosen, disentangle and straighten the cotton fibres prior to spinning. This machine, which came from...

Carding engine, 1800-1830.

This electromagnetic engine was typical of the engines of the time in that it used reciprocating motion like a contemporary steam engine. These...

Electromagnetic engine model, c 1840.

Singer sewing machine which made a lock-stitched by means of a needle and a reciprocating shuttle. London, dated 1880.

Singer sewing machine.

One of the smallest steam reciprocating engines in the world, at 2 1/2 inches at the base and less than 1 inch high, is being displayed at the...

Tiny Steam Engine

reciprocating steam engine (collmann engine, 1877), published in 1880 - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine (Collmann engine, 1877), published in 1880

James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778. Scottish engineer and inventor Watt formed a successful partnership with the entrepreneur...

James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778.

reciprocating steam engine (1876/77) by alfred collmann (austrian mechanical engineer, 1851 - 1937). - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine (1876/77) by Alfred Collmann (Austrian mechanical engineer, 1851 - 1937).

reciprocating steam engine - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine

reciprocating steam engine - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine

reciprocating steam engine - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine

reciprocating steam engine - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating steam engine

Worker is shrouded in steam from using a welding torch to begin dismounting one of five natural gas reciprocating engines off rail cars onto truck...

POWER PLANT--10-10-2001-A worker is shrouded in steam from using a welding torch to begin dismounting one of five natural gas reciprocating engines off rail cars onto truck flatbeds to shuttle to the Plains End power plant located next to the Jefferson Co

reciprocating press engine - reciprocating engine stock illustrations

Reciprocating press engine

Typical Piston And Cylinder Arrangement Of A Gasoline Engine. .

Typical Piston And Cylinder Arrangement Of A Gasoline Engine.

Begun in 1925 by former Wright Aeronautical employees as a spinoff from a machine tool company, Pratt & Whitney became one of the world’s largest...

Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. R-985-An-14B "Dancing Engine

All-metal helicopter with single main rotor and single tail rotor, powered by reciprocating engine, equipped with skid landing gear made of metal...

The Wasp Jr. R-985 was the third engine type designed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, following the Wasp R-1340 and Hornet R-1690, all of which were...

Jacobs (Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr.) R-985-An5

James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess' c1778. In this engine, which was erected at the Soho works, Birmingham, England, in 1777-1778,...

James Watt's (1736-1819) prototype steam engine 'Old Bess' c1778. In this engine, which was erected at the Soho works, Birmingham, England, in 1777-1778, reciprocating motion was turned into rotary motion by a sun-and-planet gear train. From Lives of Boul...

September 2018, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rostock: 12 September 2018, Germany, Rostock: Horst Harndorf, mechanical engineering expert and former...

Large Engines Conference at the University of Rostock

September 2018, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rostock: 12 September 2018, Germany, Rostock: Horst Harndorf, mechanical engineering expert and former...

Large Engines Conference at the University of Rostock

September 2018, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rostock: 12 September 2018, Germany, Rostock: Horst Harndorf, mechanical engineering expert and former...

Large Engines Conference at the University of Rostock

Scale model of a single cylinder, 1850. Scale model of a single cylinder reciprocating steam ploughing - engine, circa 1850

Scale model of a single cylinder, 1850.

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