Greatest Engine Invention in Human History?
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Steam (Piston or Turbine)
Also, boss, we're not talking about power plants here. We're talking about engines to that do mechanical work.
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Uh, you don't think spinning huge shaft attached to a huge generator to generate metric shitloads of energy is doing mechanical work? If spinning a shaft isn't doing mechanical work, the steam engine doesn't count either. You could always modify the title of the pole to "transportation engines" and I'll rescind combined cycle turbines.
And search engines…
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Diesel
Always an engine superiority guy on the boreds
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Internal Combustion (Gasoline)
Between Engine and Internet which is most important over last 100 years?
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Without all those engines getting my Amazon garbage to me, is the internet even worth it?
Oh yeah, porn.
Totally the internet.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You left off
I spin my huge shaft almost daily.
I don’t consider it work.
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You SPIN it!? You might want to see a doctor.
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Gas turbine engines (Jets) can run on any fuel, which I guess is also true of steam engines since anything can heat water. And, if you think about nearly all of our energy comes from steam driven turbines (even fusion reactors - if they ever work - will eventually use steam to generate electricity). So, I'd say it's tie between Jet and Steam.
Possible tie breaker - there is no such thing as a "Cleveland Jetter"
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Steam (Piston or Turbine)
I don’t like including power generation in the engine category, but I will concede the point. If a diesel generator at a hospital is an engine, then I guess we have to count a gas turbine burning cow farts.
