The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...

The 20th century was the age of the internal combustion engine. The fruits of industrial progress produced power plants tasked with everything from running generators to powering warplanes. The First ...

In the late 1940s, GE introduced the J-47 gas turbine engine, which became the most-produced jet engine of the early jet age, ...

Car enthusiasts will know Rolls-Royce as a maker of ultra-luxury cars, and aviation enthusiasts will know Rolls-Royce as a maker of engines for some of the world's most famous aircraft. Originally, ...