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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 486
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 10:19 am: | 
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From a 1907 article
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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 487
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 - 10:21 am: |
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Wing
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rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 362
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 11:19 am: |
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Bill - what is the source of the information?
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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 488
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 01:09 pm: |
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it was in a 1907 article in boating magazine. also listed as Power Boating, volume 3 by google books.
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bruce
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Username: bruce
Post Number: 292
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 - 01:29 pm: |
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There's a building at Cornell university named Wing Hall. It's addition was known as Wing wing.. and an additional expansion was Wing wing wing-honest truth....There's a patented non-freeze design heating coil know as a Wing coil. otherwise-Wing it |
speleausmining
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Username: speleausmining
Post Number: 27
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 10:17 pm: |
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Given what we know about engines now thats such an odd design. It seems almost overly complicated. I assume both cylinders would fire in unison? I wonder what ever became of the old girl? |
rbprice
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Username: rbprice
Post Number: 364
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 07:44 am: |
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Not so odd if you have spent the last 50 years thinking steam engine design. Surprising to me is that the crankcase is enclosed.
The early Standard marine engines all had fully open crankcases with the cylinder perched up on four beefy rods to take the reaction forces just like a steam engine. They were really messy to have in a boat as oil flew everywhere when they were running.
They even went so far as to build an engine with double acting characteristics that had a piston complete with a cross head assembly that fired from two plugs, one above the piston, one below. Just like a steam engine. |
billschaller
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Username: billschaller
Post Number: 489
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 06:22 pm: |
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This is from a 1905 text book.
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