Invention and Engineering

Ford Model A engine

The Ford Model A engine – primarily developed for the popular Ford Model A automobile (1927–1931, 4.8 million built) – was one of the most mass-produced automobile engines of the 1920s and 1930s, widely used in automobiles, trucks, tractors, and a wide variety of other vehicles and machinery. A four-cylinder, carbureted, gasoline-fueled, piston engine, derived from the Ford Model T engine, the Ford Model A engine – with a bigger bore and stroke, and higher compression ratio – was twice as powerful as the Model T engine. Some derivatives, with improvements, were produced until 1958. Tens of thousands of the original design remain active even in the 21st century.

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• ▸Fuel cell
• ▸Cape Horn
• ▸Bessemer process

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