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reimk4526 Send message Joined: 4 Mar 08 Posts: 136 Credit: 200,400 RAC: 0 |
Bailer? Nope |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
printing press In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
There should be a scale next to the item shown/depicted, the same way you can find it in a map. If a scale is not possible, then the actual measures, in the I.S. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
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reimk4526 Send message Joined: 4 Mar 08 Posts: 136 Credit: 200,400 RAC: 0 |
Stationary gasoline engine, probably a one-lunger. You are correct, this engine is commonly known as a Hit and Miss (due to the way that they run). This particular gear is on an engine I am restoring, I can post pics if any ones interested. Hope it, or I wasn't too frustrating. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Stationary gasoline engine, probably a one-lunger. Herabouts they are also known as make-and-breaks, because of the way the ignition works. I would love to see photos. It's late here, will post a pic in the morning. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
OK, we will continue the old machinery theme. Two answers required, may give it to just one right answer if nobody gets both. 1. Where and when (roughly) was this photo taken? 2. The machinery behind the earnest young man would make history some time later, in a completely different machine. Name the event. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
alaska 1905 In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
alaska 1905 Sort of close on the date, a long way off on the place. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Norway? In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Norway? Wrong continent. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
1909 Russia by Igor Sikorsky. The engine was used in the first helicopter prototype. Correct year. Wrong country, wrong mad inventor (big hint). The helicopter is getting close though. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
1909 Russia by Igor Sikorsky. The engine was used in the first helicopter prototype. That would make it Glen Curtis, New York someplace, and it would have gone into an experimental airplane. (NOTE that ALL airplanes at that time were experimental). BOINC WIKI |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
That would make it Glen Curtis, New York someplace, and it would have gone into an experimental airplane. (NOTE that ALL airplanes at that time were experimental). So close John! Glen Curtiss was part of this story (another big clue), but that is not him in the picture, and that is not New York. Yes, it was an airplane, but a particularly historic one, even for 1909. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
W. Starling Burgess? Not involved at all, but I admire your knowledge of old flyers. Massachusetts? Wrong country. (your next hint) Went into the first commercially saleable airplane? No. But that raises an interesting question. The Wright Brothers took several years to sell their first airplane, which probably makes the Wright Flyer the first saleable airplane, but not the first sold. So who did the first commercial transaction? I'm off to Google to find out. |
aka_Sam Send message Joined: 1 Aug 07 Posts: 471 Credit: 1,637,878 RAC: 0 |
1909. Baddeck, Nova Scotia Silver Dart. |
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