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a thousand controlled explosions a minute, pretending to be a calm hum
means A machine that converts energy into motion or work, especially one that burns fuel to drive something.
from From Latin 'ingenium' — natural talent, cleverness, a flash of mind — via Old French 'engin.' For centuries an 'engine' was any ingenious contrivance: a trick, a scheme, a clever device or war machine (the same root gives us 'ingenious' and 'engineer'). Only with steam did the word narrow to the roaring mechanical sense we now picture — the cleverness moving from the inventor's head into the iron itself.
- Fire tamed
- Burns fuel hundreds of times per second
- Latin root
- From ingenium, the same word as ingenious
- Idle waste
- Most fuel becomes heat, not motion
- Tiny giants
- F1 engines once revved past 20000 rpm
- Heartbeat
- Pistons cycle faster than your pulse ever will
wright brothers' 1903 engine — 12-horsepower aircraft engine that powered the first airplane flight at kitty hawk
rolls-royce merlin engine — 27-liter v12 that powered spitfires and hurricanes in world war ii
ferrari f140 engine — 6.3-liter v12 in the 612 scaglietti, producing 540 horsepower