Another post about how engines work, diesel engines with a short documentary about the most powerful diesel marine engine in the world.
Skip forward to about 2:05 to see the piston in action of this 2000 tonnes marine engine
and understand how internal combustion engines function.
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2015
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Body and Chassis - Automobile History
source: http://www.motorera.com/history/hist09.htm
I am spending some time under the van because I'm installing a towbar.
It got me thinking of the rarely seen part of cars and vans that's holing it together, the chassis. There I found an educative article on the subject.
"Unlike the first engine and chassis builders, who had no precedents to follow, the first auto body engineers represented an old established craft. It mattered little to them whether vehicles were to be propelled by a gasoline engine, electric power, or steam. Their task was the same as in the days of chariots: to construct a conveyance that would carry people.
The body builders contended that if carriages were good enough for horses, they were good enough for engines. They were even given carriage names -- phaeton, brougham, tonneau, landaulet, and wagonette.
Don't get the idea that early body engineers were a stodgy conservative bunch. When it came to trying new structural concepts and materials, they were as radical as the engine and chassis guys -- so much so, in fact, that practically every body structural technique in use today had been tried by 1920, even gluing bodies together. (...)"
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I am spending some time under the van because I'm installing a towbar.
It got me thinking of the rarely seen part of cars and vans that's holing it together, the chassis. There I found an educative article on the subject.
"Unlike the first engine and chassis builders, who had no precedents to follow, the first auto body engineers represented an old established craft. It mattered little to them whether vehicles were to be propelled by a gasoline engine, electric power, or steam. Their task was the same as in the days of chariots: to construct a conveyance that would carry people.
The body builders contended that if carriages were good enough for horses, they were good enough for engines. They were even given carriage names -- phaeton, brougham, tonneau, landaulet, and wagonette.
Don't get the idea that early body engineers were a stodgy conservative bunch. When it came to trying new structural concepts and materials, they were as radical as the engine and chassis guys -- so much so, in fact, that practically every body structural technique in use today had been tried by 1920, even gluing bodies together. (...)"
read more
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Other blogs on LDV Pilot vans and more
http://www.campervanlife.com/building/choosing-a-base-vehicle
Wiki history of LDV group
Internet movie cars database
http://mycamperplan.wordpress.com/
http://www.pimpmysherpa.co.uk/
Loads of pic on this flikr group
Teapotcircus Flikr group
http://sundownpilot.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.campervanproject.co.uk/ldv-pilot-campervan-project-1-stage-1/
Wiki history of LDV group
Internet movie cars database
http://mycamperplan.wordpress.com/
http://www.pimpmysherpa.co.uk/
Loads of pic on this flikr group
Teapotcircus Flikr group
http://sundownpilot.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.campervanproject.co.uk/ldv-pilot-campervan-project-1-stage-1/
Thursday, April 11, 2013
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