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Wankel engine (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anyone who calls it a "rotary" engine is physically incapable of having fun. Plus rotary engines are reciprocating engines that powered early WW1 fighter planes, where the whole engine spins with the propeller for reasons I'm too modern to understand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're called rotaries because they have rotors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're called wankels because it's a much funnier word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They're called Wankels because one of the contributors was Felix Wankel and his last name happens to have humorous connotations.