I can't find "technology" under "Science & Technology, so this'll have to go here!
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
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Bill Sikes;610114 wrote: I can't find "technology" under "Science & Technology, so this'll have to go here!
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
This is an amazing piece of engineering, and the photos are spectacular ! Thanks for the link.
Rudolf Diesel was an interesting man. He drowned in 1913 in the English Channel . Here's a bit about his untimely and mysterious demise fom www.vor.ru :
On that fateful day, the 55 year-old Dr.Rudolf Diesel was on board when the luxurious steamboat Dresden sailed from Antwerp heading for Britain. Rudolf Diesel had been invited to London as a guest of honour by a British corporation which was building his engines.
Dr.Diesel stayed up late into the night chatting with the news people. As usual, he was in very good spirits and and joking all the time... After midnight the passengers all retired to their cabins. In the morning, a steward knocked on Dr.Diesel's door to invite him to breakfast only to find out the cabin was empty. They started looking for the missing engineer but he seemed to have vanished without trace! The accident triggered a public outcry which culminated in early October when some German fishermen found floating in the sea the dead body of a well-dressed gentleman. Before they could pick him up on board, however, a heavy storm began and they only managed to take a couple of rings off the dead man's fingers. When the honest fishermen handed the rings over to the police it became clear that the drowned man was indeed the missing Dr.Rudolf Diesel! Suicide was immediately brushed off by the investigators because Dr.Diesel's behaviour and his good mood simply ruled out such a possibility. The version of a robbery didn't hold water either because the victim did not have any expensive things on him and even his suitcase in the cabin had been left untouched. The most viable suggestion was that the talented inventor might have fallen victim to a contract murder. The killer could have been hired by the coal industrialists, financially crumpled by the advent of Rudolf Diesel's economical engine. The murder could also have been the revenge of the German generals, still rattled by Dr.Diesel's refusal to take part in the development of the country's top-secret weapon, the flame-thrower.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
This is an amazing piece of engineering, and the photos are spectacular ! Thanks for the link.
Rudolf Diesel was an interesting man. He drowned in 1913 in the English Channel . Here's a bit about his untimely and mysterious demise fom www.vor.ru :
On that fateful day, the 55 year-old Dr.Rudolf Diesel was on board when the luxurious steamboat Dresden sailed from Antwerp heading for Britain. Rudolf Diesel had been invited to London as a guest of honour by a British corporation which was building his engines.
Dr.Diesel stayed up late into the night chatting with the news people. As usual, he was in very good spirits and and joking all the time... After midnight the passengers all retired to their cabins. In the morning, a steward knocked on Dr.Diesel's door to invite him to breakfast only to find out the cabin was empty. They started looking for the missing engineer but he seemed to have vanished without trace! The accident triggered a public outcry which culminated in early October when some German fishermen found floating in the sea the dead body of a well-dressed gentleman. Before they could pick him up on board, however, a heavy storm began and they only managed to take a couple of rings off the dead man's fingers. When the honest fishermen handed the rings over to the police it became clear that the drowned man was indeed the missing Dr.Rudolf Diesel! Suicide was immediately brushed off by the investigators because Dr.Diesel's behaviour and his good mood simply ruled out such a possibility. The version of a robbery didn't hold water either because the victim did not have any expensive things on him and even his suitcase in the cabin had been left untouched. The most viable suggestion was that the talented inventor might have fallen victim to a contract murder. The killer could have been hired by the coal industrialists, financially crumpled by the advent of Rudolf Diesel's economical engine. The murder could also have been the revenge of the German generals, still rattled by Dr.Diesel's refusal to take part in the development of the country's top-secret weapon, the flame-thrower.