Bailer?

Nope

Water Pump?

Stamping Press?

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BOINC WIKI

printing press

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

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.

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Stationary gasoline engine, probably a one-lunger.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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alaska 1905

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Just a little break in the guessing game.

When this round is over please post the next picture in the Game 11 thread as we are getting close to 200 posts in this one.

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alaska 1905

Sort of close on the date, a long way off on the place.

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Norway?

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Norway?

Wrong continent.

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1909 Russia by Igor Sikorsky. The engine was used in the first helicopter prototype.

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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.

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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.

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).

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BOINC WIKI

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.

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W. Starling Burgess?

Massachusetts?

Went into the first commercially saleable airplane?

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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.

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1909.

Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Silver Dart.