DARPA has awarded LiquidPiston Inc. $2.5 million to continue development of a new, patented, high-efficiency, lighter-weight rotary engine. LiquidPiston, a developer of advanced combustion engine ...

LiquidPiston says it is currently in negotiations with potential partners to bring its small engines to market. Shkolnik also said the engines could be used as range-extenders for mass market electric ...

Industrial, environmental, and medical devices rely on pumps for a wide range of applications. Among the many pump types available, piston pumps and peristaltic pumps are frequently compared due to ...

Compact, highly efficient heavy-fuel engines could unlock greater potential in small unmanned aircraft, enabling longer missions with heavier payloads. They also could accelerate the emerging electric ...

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Since their invention in the late 1700s when French-born British physicist Denis Papin, the inventor of the pressure cooker, proposed the piston principle, pistons have been used ...