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An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a wire winding to generate force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft. An electric generator is mechanically identical to an electric ...
The first motor car in Central Europe was produced by the Austro-Hungarian company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau (later renamed to Tatra in today's Czech Republic) in 1897, the Präsident automobile. [47] In 1898, Louis Renault had a De Dion-Bouton modified, with fixed drive shaft and differential , making "perhaps the first hot rod in history" and ...
The Panhead is an overhead-valve Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine, so nicknamed because the rocker covers resembled cooking pans. The engine is a two- cylinder, two- valve -per-cylinder, pushrod V-twin, made in both 61 c.i. (EL) and 74 c.i. (FL, FLH) displacements. The Panhead engine replaced the Knucklehead engine in 1948 and was manufactured ...
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power generation ), heat energy (e.g. geothermal ), chemical energy , electric potential and nuclear ...
The Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [ 1][ 2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [ 3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000. The building is located at 1 American Road at Michigan ...
A homopolar motor is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles, the conductors of which always cut unidirectional lines of magnetic flux by rotating a conductor around a fixed axis so that the conductor is at right angles to a static magnetic field. The resulting force being continuous in one direction, the homopolar motor needs ...
The universal motor is a type of electric motor that can operate on either AC or DC power and uses an electromagnet as its stator to create its magnetic field. [ 1] It is a commutated series-wound motor where the stator 's field coils are connected in series with the rotor windings through a commutator. It is often referred to as an AC series ...
The Chrysler flathead engine is a flathead automotive engine manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation from 1924 through the early 1960s. The flathead engine came in four-,six-, and eight-cylinder configurations and varying displacement, with both a cast iron and cast aluminum cylinder head. It was installed in Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and ...