Animated Engines

Matt Keveney's personal web page has some animated illustrations that show the inner workings of a variety of steam, Stirling and internal combustion engines. The engines use some of the mechanisms you'll find in Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (one of my favorite little books).

He's also been kind enough to tell you how the animations were made and include an interesting bibliography.

Learn about some basic mechanism by viewing these animated engines