Felix Wankel (1902-88),German engineer & inventor of the Wankel rotary combustion engine,at work at his drawing board. Wankel was born in the Black Forest in Germany,the son of a ranger. He never attended university,but showed an early flair for engineering mathematics and an obsessive interest in vehicle propulsion. After World War II,during which he was held prisoner by the French,he designed a novel type of internal combustion engine in which the piston rotates about an axis within a chamber,rather than oscillating up and down in a cylinder as in conventional engines. Although a radical innovation,the Wankel engine remains to be fully exploited by industry | |
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