Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "VisioRacer" channel.

I think you might be confusing racing cars with sports cars, the later don't need to be fast, just sporty. Just look at the MG midget not fast at 87mph , but great fun to drive.
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It's interesting to note that a rotary engine design was patented in Yorkshire before Wankel. However, at the time there was no material hard enough to seal the combustion chamber. Nevertheless, just as the patent ran out Wankel patented his very similar engine just as this material became available.
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@sandervanderkammen9230 What a strange response ! But it's not British humour, it's historical fact. Rotary engines have a long history, right back to James Watts Steam Wheel of 1769 and probably even before that. In 1865 the Holmes rotary engine was patented in the US. There was even a Norton rotary engine patented in 1866 but not the famous motorcycle manufacturer. Though these were steam powered its impossible not to notice the obvious similarities in their construction and just like the Internal combustion engines they too suffered with sealing the chamber. In fact just like the steam rotaries, there were thousands of patents for Internal Combustion engines rotaries before Wankel. The first of these was probably the Joseph Webb engine of 1853 built in Middlesex England, though the Umpleby of 1908 also England is often claimed as the first one. The engine I was previously referring to was built by Lansdowne and a model is on display in a Yorkshire museum.
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@sandervanderkammen9230 The Wankel DKM engine is a rotary engine and though we know it as a Wankel engine, the engine that went into production was actually a KKM version designed by Hanns Dieter Paschke. However, perhaps you think I am confusing the rotary engine with the radial engine? My post was not concerning the radial combustion piston engine designs as used on early aircraft, if that is what you referring to. My post was entirely concerning rotary pistonless internal combustion engines and their similarity and development from the earlier rotary steam engines of the past. Though the Wankel design became the first successful production rotary internal combustion engine, that too was not the first. The Webb engine of 1853 was the first rotary internal combustion engine and there were many others, both before, and after Wankel.
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@sandervanderkammen9230 I'm not sure what you point is anymore, do you ? The Wankel DKM was Wankels original rotary engine, but I disputed your claim that it was the first rotary engine, which is not correct and I provided verifiable evidence to prove my point.
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@howardosborne8647 A patent only last for 20 years and this one had just run out, and at the same time that the new materials to seal the chamber became available. However, Inventions are rarely the work of one man, rather a constant development of an idea. And the idea for a rotary engine is much older than Wankel, just as I have shown in my previous posts.
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