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87 Reciprocating Motion Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Hand-powered reciprocating motion-driven milling machine with one flywheel, copperplate engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novum, Plate 12, by Georg...

Hand-powered motion-driven milling machine

Hand-powered reciprocating motion-driven milling machine with a ballasted flywheel, copperplate engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novum, Plate 8, by...

Hand-powered motion-driven milling machine

Hand-powered reciprocating motion-driven milling machine with one flywheel, copperplate engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novum, Plate 9, by Georg...

Hand-powered motion-driven milling machine

Hand-powered reciprocating motion-driven milling machine with two flywheels , copperplate engraving from Theatrum Machinarum Novum, Plate 11, by...

Hand-powered motion-driven milling machine

The Wankel rotary engine was invented by the German engineer Felix Wankel . This example powered the NSU 'Spider' motor car of 1965. The engine...

Wankel rotary engine, 1965.

This engine is able to convert the reciprocating motion of the pistons into the required rotary motion of the crankshaft. The rotation is obtained by...

Wooler motorcycle engine, 1950.

This electromagnetic engine was typical of the engines of the time in that it used reciprocating motion like a contemporary steam engine. These...

Electromagnetic engine model, c 1840.

Archimedean screw operated by reciprocating rope to give continuous circular motion. The screw is being used to raise water from A to B. The...

Archimedean screw

Educational plate published Wurtemberg c.1850. Gears; Escapement; Governor; Parallel motion; Reciprocating to rotative motion; Eccentric; Crank, etc.

Movement of solids.

Mutual Joy, Or The Ship in Harbour, c1788. After George Morland . From The Connoisseur Volume XVI [Otto Limited, London, 1906.]

Mutual Joy, Or The Ship in Harbour, c1788, (1906). Artist: Philip Dawe

James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778. Scottish engineer and inventor Watt formed a successful partnership with the entrepreneur...

James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778.

Movement of solids, c1850. Illustrating mechanisms including gears, the escapement, governor, parallel motion, reciprocating to rotative motion, the...

Movement of solids, c1850.

French engineer Joseph Cugnot drives his steam powered car, known as 'Le Fardier de Cugnot' , into a wall at the Paris Arsenal. The second of his...

This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows a vertical saw. Everybody is familiar with the up-and-down movement of a common saw, and in the...

The International Exhibition: Crosskill's Bell's reaping-machine, 1862. '...Prize Corn-mowing Machine of the trustees of W. Crosskill,...

The International Exhibition: Crosskill's Bell's reaping-machine, 1862

In 1930, Continental began development of air-cooled horizontally opposed engines for low-powered aircraft. For example, the Continental A-40 made...

Teledyne Continental Motors Voyager-200 Horizontally-Opposed Engine

Begun in 1925 by former Wright Aeronautical employees as a spinoff from a machine tool company, Pratt & Whitney became one of the world’s largest...

Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. R-985-An-14B "Dancing Engine

Direct-drive, liquid-cooled, supercharged, two-stroke cycle engine, this General Motors engine was a very unusual design incorporating four cylinder...

General Motors X-250

This Detroit Aero Engines artifact is one of several engines designed by Fred Weinberg of Detroit, Michigan. Intended as an affordable power plant...

Detroit Horizontally-Opposed 2-Cylinder Engine

The Pitcairn-Brewer Model F engine was developed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during 1927 and 1928. This engine was designed by Captain Robert W....

Pitcairn-Brewer Model F

The Chevrolet Brothers Aircraft Company, owned by Swiss immigrants Arthur and Louis Chevrolet, well known designers of automobile engines and drivers...

Designed by Harold E. Morehouse, a preeminent light aircraft engine designer, this was the first successful U.S. Inverted air-cooled engine designed...

Michigan Aero-Engine Corporation Rover L-267

Charles Lawrance, originally a race car engine designer, built his first air-cooled aircraft engine in 1921 for a Navy contract. The J-1 was the...

Charles Lawrance started his designs for an air-cooled engine in 1915. In 1921, Lawrance designed his first engine for a U.S. Navy contract, which...

Wright Whirlwind J-4B

Pierre Clerget was inspired by the Gnome to produce a supposedly improved rotary engine in 1911. It was a 7-cylinder, 11.88 liter engine rated at 60...

Clerget 9 A Diesel

Hispano-Suiza engines were developed by Marc Birkigt, of Swiss origin, and first manufactured in Barcelona for use in automobiles. Hisso engines were...

Hispano-Suiza (Wright-Martin E)

Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss in...

Curtiss Ricardo R-6

Following its success as an automobile manufacturer, Rolls-Royce began design and development of aircraft engines at the request of the British...

Rolls-Royce Buzzard V-2240-56 (Model H.Xiv) V-12 Engine

Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss of...

Curtiss Chieftain H-1640

Among the most successful early engines marketed in the United States were those designed and built by aviation pioneer and inventor Glenn Curtiss....

The Daimler-Benz company's virtual monopoly on the production of aircraft engines in Germany stifled research and development of other engines. As a...

Bmw Model Iiia In-Line 6 Engine

In 1916 Curtiss engineer Charles Kirkham began designing an engine to compete with the Wright Corporation's Hispano-Suiza. By late 1917, the...

The Hall-Scott Motor Car Company, with general offices in San Francisco and factories at Berkeley, California, began specializing in the construction...

Hall-Scott A-7-A

Marc Birkigt, an inventor of Swiss origin, developed Hispano-Suiza engines, and first manufactured them in Barcelona for use in automobiles. Hisso...

Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs V-12 Engine

The Packard Motor Car Company produced the world’s first quantity-production 12-cylinder automobile in in 1916, and belief in that engine carried...

Packard 1A-2775 X-24 Engine

Mitsubishi was the first and largest series producer of Japanese engines during World War II, with a 1937 Pratt & Whitney arrangement possibly...

Mitsubishi Ha 42 Model 41 Ru (Ha 214 Ru)

This diesel engine was designed and built under the direction of the Packard Company’s Chief Aeronautical Engineer, L. M. Woolson. The objective was...

In 1925, Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design....

Continental Xr-1740-2

In early 1921, the Navy contracted with the Packard Motor Car Company, to develop the new Model 1A-1551 engine for its proposed ZR-1 airship, later...

Packard Model 1A-1551

Famed designer Mark Birkigt was from Switzerland, but his aircraft engines were built elsewhere. Hispano-Suiza engines were built in company...

Wright H-3 V-8 Engine

Hispano-Suiza engines were developed by Marc Birkigt, of Swiss origin, and first manufactured in Barcelona, Spain for use in automobiles. Hisso...

Hispano-Suiza A (Wright-Martin) V-8 Engine

Charles B. Kirkham of Savona, N.Y., one of the earliest and best known airplane engine designers and builders, originally built motorcycle engines,...

The first versions of this engine were built in 1908, and set an 8-hour endurance record in 1910. It continued to be used through World War I,...

The Wright vertical four-cylinder engine was designed by Orville Wright in 1906. These engines, of which more were built than any other Wright...

Wright Vertical 4

Originally the engine building subsidiary of the German Zeppelin Company , Maybach Motorenbau G.m.b.H. Of Friedrichshafen possibly became better...

About the middle of 1923, the U.S. Navy signed a contract with Wright Aeronautical for three large air-cooled engine designs, which were to be built...

Wright Cyclone P-1

The Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Ltd of Wolverhampton, England began producing successful automobiles in 1910. Applying the expertise of French Chief...

Sterling (Sunbeam) Cossack

The Eagle was the first production Rolls-Royce aircraft engine to be used in service during World War I. Resulting from a 1914 British Admiralty...

Rolls-Royce Eagle Viii

Beginning in 1911, the Sturtevant Manufacturing Co. Produced a number of engine models, all water cooled in-line vertical and V-types. Later absorbed...

Sturtevant D-6 In-Line Engine

This engine, built by the Glenn H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company of Hammondsport, New York, about 1907 is believed to be a Model C-4 or D-4 engine....

Curtiss C-4 Or D-4

Aeronca built the first widely accepted light planes in the U.S., the Collegian. These were originally powered by an engine based on a...

The Model 905 was the second of the early aircraft engine designs of the Packard Motor Car Company, located in Detroit, Michigan. Following the Model...

Packard B-12 (Model 905)

Glenn Curtiss of Hammondsport, New York, who built and raced bicycles early in the twentieth century, later raced, designed and built motorcycles and...

Curtiss Conqueror V-1570-53 (G1V-1570-F)

The Allison XV-1710-1 was the first V-1710 engine built for the Army Air Corps, following the success of the Navy’s GV-1710-A model. The Air Corps...

Allison Xv-1710-1

In early 1930, Allison manager N. H. Gilman sketched a design for a 559 kW , 12-cylinder engine that would incorporate high-temperature glycol...

Allison V-1710-7 (V-1710-C4)

The Wasp Jr. R-985 was the third engine type designed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, following the Wasp R-1340 and Hornet R-1690, all of which were...

Jacobs (Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr.) R-985-An5

In 1932, the Army contracted with Continental for development of a cylinder with high specific power. Using the resulting Hyper No. 1 cylinder, the...

Continental Hyper I-1430-11

Originating in Iowa to build automobiles, the Duesenberg Motors Corporation of Elizabeth, New Jersey was organized in 1917 by German immigrant Fred...

Duesenberg H Direct

Beginning around 1922, J.F. Irwin’s Irwin Aircraft Company of Watsonville, California designed and provided blueprints for small, single seat sport...

Irwin Meteor Model 72

Initially asked in 1914 to study an overheating problem in rotary engines, Captain W. O. Bentley, an established car designer, developed a new and...

Humber Ltd. (Bentley) B.R.2