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.
A six-cylinder engine thus has 12 pistons and a crank with the torsional rigidity of spaghetti. The production engines ranged from 2.3-liter twos to 11.4-liter sixes. There was also a monster 13.5-liter four-cylinder racer that was the first car to top 100 mph, driven by Louis Rigolly at Ostend, Belgium, in 1904. These crazy Frenchmen, obviously unfettered by conventional thinking, also ran a crude form of fuel injection in their earliest engines.