Hesselman engine

[ hes-uhl-muhn ]

noun
  1. a low-compression oil engine requiring a spark for ignition.

Origin of Hesselman engine

1
After Swedish engineer Knut Jonas Elias Hesselman (1877–1957), its inventor

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