There are palm-sized pieces of the piston and connecting rod in ... and the engine jumping time doesn't make sense because the bulk of the harm wouldn't be to a single cylinder.

The final design, however, ditched the rear cylinder, but kept the connecting rod attached to a weighted linkage to replicate the mass of the rear piston. The additional mass gave the engine the ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine ... the cylinders also acted as connecting rods, tilting back and forth ...

This creates an airtight seal in the engine's cylinder. The piston is placed into a machine that will marry the connecting rod and piston. Above it, a pin designed to connect the two components is ...

Requiring only three main bearings instead of five shortens the crank, while shorter piston skirts with no connecting rods swinging ... or eight-cylinder engines configurable as naturally ...