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Start your engines!

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The inventions of engines have stimulated the revolution of ancient means of transportation to which society was submitted to more than 3 hundred years ago. These creations have had a strong technological, economical, and social impact on mankind. But it was quite a long way until you could "start your engines". Due to scientists' inquisitiveness, theoretical predictions, and many years of experimentation, we find ourselves now living in an industrialized environment where people have access to many effective, volatile, and modern mediums of transportation. This facility is all due to one simple, yet extraordinary, mechanical device: The engine.Get ready to "start your engines".