No one has mentioned the original American stock-car engine, the Hudson 308 flathead straight-six with Twin-H power, that is, dual carburetors.

The problem is that BART was designed by what might be thought of as the Gizmodo readers of the late 1960's, aerospace engineers in between gigs, who chose some new solutions like cylindrical-profile wheels, flat rails, extra-wide gauge (e.g. the width between the rails), and a host of other innovations large and…

One thought is the actual bearing and race is not a special to Tange, but something they adapted to this application from the many thousands of different bearings available from different bearing manufacturers. Having an old piece of industrial equipment, having a bearing fail and not being able to get it from the…

Baseball needs to return to its roots, being inexpensive for the casual fan, something that people can enjoy cheaply. There is this dangerous tendency for the people who run Baseball to think of setting prices in the same way one might think of for a concert. I remember talking to folks at the Oakland A’s, explaining…

The genesis of the two-speed axle for both trucks and cars was the “Ruckstell Axle” for model T Fords, which was a development of an earlier design, the “Perfecto” axle, and marketed by Grover Ruckstell, an employee of the Hall-Scott engine company in Berkeley, California, which originally handled the manufacture. The…