Animated Engines
I have loved mechanical things since I was a kid.  Engines in particular have always intrigued me.  All my life I've pored over books, studying cutaway diagrams, hungry to understand how things worked.  These pages are an attempt to share that magic.

Some of the animations are rather large, so you may need to allow a few extra seconds while each page loads.  These pages use animated GIF files, so they require a fairly recent browser -- any but the oldest browsers will do.  If the main illustration at the top of each page isn't moving, you'll need to update your browser for the full effect.

I hope you enjoy  visiting my engine pages as much as I have enjoyed creating them.

Internal combustion
Four Stroke (Otto) Two Stroke Wankel
Atkinson Gnome Rotary Jet Propulsion
Steam
Locomotive Oscillating CO2
Coomber Crank Substitute Revolving Cylinder
Watt Beam Grasshopper Beam Unknown Beam
Newcomen    
Stirling
Two Cylinder Single Cylinder Ross Yoke

I would love to hear your comments about these pages.  Are there any other engines you think I ought to make illustrations of? (I already have to-do list...)  Also, please contact me if you feel I have made any errors or omissions.  

Click here if you want to know how the illustrations were made.

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Last update: 5/23/2001

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