15 Biggest Engines of All Time

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Hi everyone and today in the spotlight are machines, and more precisely -their power units. From the largest and up to incredibly huge engines with power in dozens of horsepower. The biggest diesel engine ... The biggest automobile and motorcycle engine , And the world's largest jet engine - this, and much more interesting you will see in our today's release. Here goes!

VyartsilyA zUul'tser - the name of the largest marine engine in the world. Its weight is 2300 tons. The length of the motor is almost 87 feet, Height – 44 feet. This 14-cylinder monster produces 108,876 horsepower, and is used in huge container ships.

The largest engine in the world in the history of cars. In the distant 1909 the German company built a car blItzen bEnz, which translated means lightning bEnz. It was designed for racing and setting a world speed record with an eight-cylinder 22-liter engine that produced 200 horsepower.

Golly! BMW with a 46-liter engine! It is said that right after the First World War some Germany's madmans decided to create a one-of-a-kind race car on a BMW airplane motor. It was a forty-six liter 12-cylinder V-unit, which weighed 1124.3 pounds, 5.9 feet long and 3.6 feet high.

The world's largest jet engine. This mover, installed now in between two reinforced concrete structures on the test site, is the first prototype and, at the same time, the largest jet engine in the world today. The diameter of the GE9X engine blades is 9.8 feet.

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