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The Rotary Engine Earrings depict a nine-cylinder Le Rhone 9C rotary engine. Created in 1916, it produced approximately 80 horsepower and powered such legendary aircraft as the Nieuport 11, Sopwith Pup, and Sopwith Camel.
A rotary engine's crankshaft was bolted to the fuselage, with the entire engine rotating around the fixed crankshaft, and the propeller was bolted to the crankcase. The engine's rotating mass provided a consistent fuel-air charge to each cylinder- which gave rotaries a greater power-to-weight ratio than other designs of the era.
