The document summarizes the history and workings of jet engines. It describes how early inventors in the 18th and 19th centuries theorized and experimented with jet propulsion using steam engines. Frank Whittle designed the first turbojet engine in the 1930s, which was then used to power the world's first turbojet-powered flight by the German Heinkel He 178 aircraft. The document then explains the basic components and functioning of a turbojet engine, including the diffuser, compressor, combustor, turbine, and nozzle. It describes how air is compressed, mixed with fuel, ignited, and expelled through the nozzle to generate thrust according to Newton's third law of motion.