Some also invented some pretty weird engines. Arguably the weirdest engine to ever grace the front end of a car has to be the turbine engine. A few car manufacturers toyed with the idea ...

Read more: The 12 Fastest F1 Cars Of All Time, Ranked In the fall of 1945, the Bureau of the Aeronautics of the U.S. Navy awarded Chrysler a contract to build a gas turbine engine for aircraft use.

Like the other cars in his collection, Jay Leno's Chrysler Turbine Car saw regular use— until its engine failed. So Leno sent it to Williams International, the Michigan-based company founded by one of ...

Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...

Swapping Cosworth DFV for Pratt & Whitney, the turbine-powered Lotus Type 56B is one of the most radical F1 cars of all time ...

Mr. Tesla maintains that in the turbine which forms the subjprt of this article, he has carried the steam and gas motor a long step forward toward the maximum attainable efficiency, both ...

After some painstaking work, he was able to turn a ceiling fan into a wind turbine (of sorts). While it’s true that some generators and motors can be used interchangeably by reversing the flow ...