February 2, 2006 UK-based RCV Engines is best known globally for its range of model aircraft engines but the unveiling yesterday of a prototype 125cc Rotating Cylinder Valve (RCV) scooter engine could ...

In many arid regions, people use devices known as solar stills to extract drinkable water from seawater or tainted water. A new type of solar still is claimed to be much more effective than others, by ...

Physicists in the UK and Canada claim to have demonstrated for the first time how a spinning medium can rotate a transmitted image. According to the researchers, the phenomenon could be used to encode ...

The SX rotary joint from The Johnson Corp., Three Rivers, Mich. (joco.com), safely and reliably connects steam, water, and hot oil pipes running into rotating cylinders. Dual carbon bearings let the ...

We’ve reported on a lot of innovative diesel parts, concepts, and theories that have been introduced in the last decade, with various engine blocks, cylinder heads, turbochargers, and injection ...

On 19 November 1924, a ship slowly manoeuvred through the Port of Kiel. On board were Ludwig Prandtl and Albert Betz from the Aerodynamic Research Institute (AVA) in Göttingen – a predecessor of today ...

UK company RCV Engines has been selected to produce a demonstrator heavy-fuel engine, based on its patented rotating cylinder valve (RCV) technology, for Honeywell's backpack-sized micro air vehicle ...