Naturally aspirated diesels seemingly never do, to the best of my knowledge. Needless to say, once Cummins’ turbo diesels became commonplace, the Hall-Scott engine quickly disappeared, given its prodigious thirst. But some trucker’s thirst for power was so great that they ins...
That’s (a dramatic oversimplification of) how a steam engine works. Depending on the vehicle, the back-and-forth motion of the piston can do different things. In the example of a locomotive, the piston is attached to a rod whose back-and-forth motion turns the wheels:2 Using the ...