Humpday Triviola

One speed on the floor

I'll say this it's fuel efficient as all get out. The first name of one of the famous outlaw brother gangs, plus a burly group formerly of Los Angeles + a place to cozy up and find out about these things. One of my favorite people. If lost this engine will enable you to get there when it is otherwise speculation to know where you need to go.

Ya know Gary...

Your cryptic answers are sometimes more difficult than the original question.

But certainly as much fun trying to decipher!

Dan.

Re: Is this the engine....

that folks buy for the loping(sp) sound?

Dale

Even more so...

When you are the one asking the question and need to try and figure out if it is right ;-)

Sometimes knowing the correct answer helps, and sometimes it don't ;-)

Preaching to the Choir

I know the answer and yet I have no idea if Gary is correct! He has cryptically rendered me unable to award points.

Therefore, I leave the question open for more answers...hopefully ones that my pea sized brain can decypher! :-)

Tommy

Hint

There is a "standard" answer to this triviola.

Tommy

Re: Humpday Triviola

I'll have to divide my circle of friends and see if any of them knows the where abouts of Jesse Ramsden. Then James Troughton might just copy me.

Not it.

Humpday Hint #2

This inventor of tools partnered with Edward Bailey. What they partnered to make (at first) required the dividing engine.

Tommy

you mean "linear" dividing engine

I think Gary's answer is technically correct, but you make the rules Darling.

Gettin' Technical....Answer

Awright,

Well Gary's answer was too cryptic for my tiny gray matter but I will award some "gimme points" to him and DB.

And now the answer:

If you were to take that same boat trip to the ocean and go up the Penobscot River to Bangor in the 1850's you might run into a noted mechanical prodigy named Samuel Darling. Born in 1815, Mr. Darling formed a partnership with Edward Bailey to make machinist's rules and some examples exist marked D&B. These are quite rare, as the partnership only lasted 1 year. Mr. Darling took on another partner in 1853, a Druggist named Michael Swartz whose chief contribution was financial, not technical. Samuel Darling received his first patent in 1853 for a surface grinding machine, considered to be the first of such machines ever produced, and still today a staple of the manufacturing industry.

His first patent for a machinist tool, however, was a steel square [see example & see patent.] This may seem to be a simple tool by today's standard, but it was a technological achievement at its time. How did you make something at right angles to each other? This was the square "standard" of its day (no bureau of Standards then). If this was the standard for right angles, what was the standard for distances? The scale - what you might (incorrectly) call a ruler. Everything had to be set to a standard, and Mr. Darling employed half a dozen workers in producing scales and squares in Bangor at the time. Darling had developed a dividing engine, essentially a long accurate leadscrew (45",) which, when turned a certain number of revolutions, moved a linear distance. This replaced the hand operation of mechanics laboriously transferring by scribe, lines of a master beam. In fact in the whole US the two principle makers of scales at the time were D&S, and a Rhode Island firm called Brown & Sharpe. And, just like in business today, the two companies merged in 1866 to Darling Brown and Sharpe.