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Friday, April 15, 2022 2:12:10 PM
It was before I was born. How can I tell? The image is in black and white. The year is unknown. That isn't important.
The Ford F-150, over the decades, eventually became the biggest selling American made "pick up" truck. Which is saying something, considering the power of General Motors and its GMC and Chevrolet truck models.
:Pick Up is an apt descriptions. Notice what is taking place in the image.
Ford will eventually bring to market a battery powered pick up that will replace the models powered by internal combustion engines. This is truly a dramatic change in the New World A-Comin''.
First off, factories that make the internal combustion engines, or ICEs, as they are now referred to, will no longer make them. What does an ICE consist of? First off, there is the block of iron. It is cast in a foundry from a mold. The holes in the block are for the pistons, the cam shaft, the crankshaft, all three of which are manufactured for installation. Then there are the valves. And so forth. The ICE is truly a marvel of engineering.
Don't forget the spark plugs. And the coil. And the copper wiring encased in rubber or a variant of rubber insulation.
And the starter motor. And the flywheel with its gear teeth that engaged with the gear teeth of the starter motor that turned over the engine that produced a spark from the ignition coil that transferred electricity to the spark plugs to ignite the gasoline that was supplied by the mechanical fuel pump.
How long has this been going on?
We come to a remarkable man, Karl Benz, who is credited with the invention of the first automobile. He was, at the time in the late 19th Century, a culmination of what scientists going back to Isacc Newton had discovered about the properties of electricity, chemistry, metals, physics, and so on. He assembled all that what was known, as Ken Griffin of the Citadel hedge fund put it in a Bloomberg radio interview, to solve a problem.
If nothing else, the problem Karl Benz first solved was the horse manure problem in the world's largest cities.
And we have been a planet on wheels ever since.
The Ford F-150, over the decades, eventually became the biggest selling American made "pick up" truck. Which is saying something, considering the power of General Motors and its GMC and Chevrolet truck models.
:Pick Up is an apt descriptions. Notice what is taking place in the image.
Ford will eventually bring to market a battery powered pick up that will replace the models powered by internal combustion engines. This is truly a dramatic change in the New World A-Comin''.
First off, factories that make the internal combustion engines, or ICEs, as they are now referred to, will no longer make them. What does an ICE consist of? First off, there is the block of iron. It is cast in a foundry from a mold. The holes in the block are for the pistons, the cam shaft, the crankshaft, all three of which are manufactured for installation. Then there are the valves. And so forth. The ICE is truly a marvel of engineering.
Don't forget the spark plugs. And the coil. And the copper wiring encased in rubber or a variant of rubber insulation.
And the starter motor. And the flywheel with its gear teeth that engaged with the gear teeth of the starter motor that turned over the engine that produced a spark from the ignition coil that transferred electricity to the spark plugs to ignite the gasoline that was supplied by the mechanical fuel pump.
How long has this been going on?
We come to a remarkable man, Karl Benz, who is credited with the invention of the first automobile. He was, at the time in the late 19th Century, a culmination of what scientists going back to Isacc Newton had discovered about the properties of electricity, chemistry, metals, physics, and so on. He assembled all that what was known, as Ken Griffin of the Citadel hedge fund put it in a Bloomberg radio interview, to solve a problem.
If nothing else, the problem Karl Benz first solved was the horse manure problem in the world's largest cities.
And we have been a planet on wheels ever since.
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