American carmakers used to experiment a lot in the 1950s and 1960s. Not only they penned wild concept cars, but some also experimented with unusual drivetrains. Chrysler developed a gas turbine car ...

A superfast turbojet engine under development could see China zooming ahead of the US in the global military aircraft race China's aerospace industry has made significant strides in the development of ...

[Tom Stanton] has been messing around with compressed air power for a few years now, and most of his work focused on piston engines. He likes using 2-liter soda bottles as lightweight tanks but their ...

Give it wheels and a steering mechanism, and people will try to power it with anything they can. Visionary (and not-so-visionary) tinkerers and engineers have experimented with everything from steam ...

AMES, Iowa – Engineers know that gas turbine engines for aircraft and power plants are more efficient and burn less fuel when they run at temperatures high enough to melt metal. But how to raise ...

Gas turbine engines, most commonly encountered deafening you in the back row of a cross-country commercial flight, have also been used in automobiles, and prototype automobiles, for over 60 years. If ...

Publicity photo of a first-generation Union Pacific GTEL locomotive and a circa-1923 electric auto in Fremont, Neb. The auto was owned by a local woman and the locomotive was on its way west to haul ...

GE Marine has been contracted to supply an aeroderivative marine gas turbine engine as part of the “combined diesel electric and gas turbine propulsion system” to power the U.S. Navy’s new ...