An engine with no crankshaft, where the pistons float on air? It’s not a dream; it’s a free piston engine and it might be the next major advance in car tech. When we think of automotive technology of ...
THE paper by H. 0. Farmer on “Free-Piston Compressor-Engines”, read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on December 6, must have been for many their first introduction to the subject, as ...