jan olieslagers wrote:
schreef:
Indeed, comparing the American & British efforts makes a damn good
adventure novel -- one in which the British should have won (ie,
because of their slide-valve engines).

[[off-topic, only of interest to historians:]]

Bob, you are writing history here as a US'an crediting a US patent to a
non-US'an! Indeed Mr. Charles Yale Knight, first holder of sleeve-valved
engine patents, was born in Indiana, USA, in 1868, at least that's what
I learn from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Engine

Then again, his idea was based upon early concoctions by German Mr.
Otto, and then again his ideas were most succesfully implemented in
Europe, in some British aero-engines (Bristol Centaurus and its
predecessors) but also in the notorious luxury Minerva cars from Belgium
- that factory was close to my home, indeed the allies only nearly
missed killing my mother when trying to bomb the factory in May 1943.


KA

Yeah an American invented it, but it took Harry Ricardo and crew to make
it really sing.

Charles