Criticism of pseudoscience, generally by the scientific community or skeptical organizations, involves critiques of the logical, methodological, or rhetorical bases of the topic in question.
A+E Networks. The German engineer Felix Wankel, inventor of a rotary engine that will be used in race cars, is born on August 13, 1902, in Lahr, Germany. Wankel reportedly came up with the basic idea for a new type of internal combustion gasoline engine when he was only 17 years old.
During the engine's first decade of production, when overhead-valve engines were rare, it was usually known simply as the Ford Vâ8, and the first car model in which it was installed, the Model 18, was (and still is) often called simply the Ford Vâ8, after its new engine.