A home valued at half a million dollars caught fire on Tuesday night and the Baton Rouge Fire Department says the cause was ...

Oily rags and a can of mineral spirts thrown away by a construction crew working on a kitchen remodel caused a house fire on ...

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to ...

Lastly, as the piston moves back up, the waste – or exhaust – gases left after the explosion are pushed out of the cylinder (the ‘blow’ stage). This graphic shows the four stages of the internal ...

A hot potato: Optical laser-based mice should operate on a very small amount of current, and they should certainly not catch fire without any prior warning signs. However, as a Reddit user ...

The fire went out on its own and was only discovered later Incorrectly stored oily rags caused a "spontaneous combustion" leading to a fire on a yacht in December, the Ports of Jersey (PoJ ...

Incorrectly stored oily rags caused a "spontaneous combustion" leading to a fire on a yacht in December, the Ports of Jersey (PoJ) has said. Crew onboard the private boat had used oil and white ...

Embarking on his journey from his garden workshop in Stuttgart, Daimler developed a gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine he dubbed the "grandfather clock." The single-cylinder, 264 cc (16 ci ...

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The cylindrical component that travels up and down in an engine cylinder. As simple as it appears, the piston is responsible for several functions. In the case of an internal-combustion engine ...

The elevated oxygen concentration present in fusel oil is expected to contribute to an increase in the in-cylinder temperature inside the combustion chamber, owing to its greater latent heat of ...

Oakland claims that Bowie is funding the lawsuit. “OBOT secretly pursued plans to bring millions of tons of unhealthy, dust-generating, spontaneously combustible substances to the Terminal,” Siegel ...