Found this on Wikipedia thought it was interesting

 

Very cool!

Now just imagine it doing that 10,000 times each minute!!!

 

Very nice. I am a visual learner, so stuff like that really helps me to understand what's going on. Thanks for the post.

 

hmmm, that is cool. i found this model V8 that is all clear, i was putting it together but i ran out of parts[:@]however it still helped alot

 

For all you visual learners.... Check out this site http://www.howstuffworks.com/
use the search to find stuff, really great site...... if you really wanna see some thing crazy look up how rotary motors work.....
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/rotary-engine4.htm

here is a 2 stroke motor animation...
http://science.howstuffworks.com/two-stroke2.htm

 

+1 on www.howstuffworks.com.

As a side note, the guy that started that site (I assume he still runs it, but I don't know) is Dr. Marshall Brain (pretty cool name, huh?). He was a professor at N.C. State when I was there. As I recall, there as a big stink about him not getting tenure or something. He was extremely well loved by his students for his creative teaching techniques and so forth. I never had him since he was IT and I was in chemical engineering, but I heard nothing but good things about him.

The site is really great. It has changed a lot over the years, but it is a great site to kill a few hours and learn a lot at the same time.