Criticism of pseudoscience, generally by the scientific community or skeptical organizations, involves critiques of the logical, methodological, or rhetorical bases of the topic in question.
A+E Networks. The German engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of a rotary engine that will be used in race cars, is born on August 13, 1902, in Lahr, Germany. Wankel reportedly came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine when he was only 17 years old.
A rotary engineâs housing is a simple epitrochiod of two circles. The rotor spins eccentrically inside the housing, thus changing the volume of three spaces (chambers) formed between the two. Rotary engines share the same four-stroke sequence of piston engines: intake, compression, power, and exhaust.