The Hartford Courant has a story this morning about a new rotary engine manufactured by a Connecticut company called LiquidPiston. The company was started in 2003 and has secured $21 million in development funds since then. Company president and founder Alec Shkolnik holds a doctorate from MIT. He and his physicist father Nikolay started the LiquidPiston company in 2003. The story (with videos) can be found here
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-liquid-piston-bloomfield-new-engine-20141119-story.html