Gas Turbine Locomotive - Free-piston Engine

Free-piston Engine

The free-piston engine was patented in 1934 by Raul Pateras Pescara (1890–1966). He was an Argentinian, who worked in Spain and France, and was prominent in helicopter development in the 1919s.

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