Tilting at Windmills

Don Quixote was infamous for “tilting at windmills,” a by-product of his obsession with chivalric romances. He saw monstrous ...
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One of GM’s most complicated engines had no crankshaft, four pistons, two cylinders, a turbine, and could run on whale oil

Automotive history is full of dead ends that eventually get lost to time. Seventy years ago, the free-piston engine was ...