rotary
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The first rotary engines were pioneered in the late 1800s by French and American inventors, and made their way into early motorcycles and airplanes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
LiquidPiston’s rotary engine is also suited to powering long-range hybrid drones, says Shkolnik.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The company built and flew a prototype of one such drone, in which batteries power the vertical takeoff and the rotary engine takes over for long-range horizontal flight.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
A startup called LiquidPiston has spent more than a decade developing a new kind of rotary engine—including the X Mini shown here—that it says can be both more efficient and compact than traditional piston engines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing rotary
"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 1
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