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The much smaller primaries act as a small two-barrel carburetor until the accelerator is pressed far enough to start to open the secondaries. The small primaries allow the primary throttle plates to be opened wider, and thus making the carburetor more efficient than a large two barrel, or square bore four-barrel. Drivability.
The company began as the Rochester Coil Company founded by Edward A. Halbleib in 1908, [2] becoming the North East Electric Company the following year. In 1916 the company was located at 348 Whitney Street, Rochester. [3] In 1929 Alfred P. Sloan announced the acquisition of the company on behalf of General Motors. [4] "For some years this ...
The Ramjet is a continuous-flow port-injection system. Unlike later fuel injection systems that used electronics, this one is based on purely mechanical principles. The two main sub-assemblies of the system are the air meter and the fuel meter. The air meter measures airflow into the engine and manages thermostatic warmup enrichment, fuel ...
The Manta A was released in September 1970, two months ahead of the then new Opel Ascona on which it was based. A competitor to the Ford Capri, it was a two-door "three-box" coupé, and featured distinctive round tail lights, quite similar to those on the Opel GT and which in fact were used on the GT in 1973, its final model year.
Rochester followed up their run to the 2006 Governors' Cup Finals by posting a winning record in each of the next two seasons, bringing the streak of consecutive winning seasons to five. In 2008 , the team went 74–70 after being as far as 13 games under .500 at one point (19–32 on May 25).
Least-squares adjustment is a model for the solution of an overdetermined system of equations based on the principle of least squares of observation residuals. It is used extensively in the disciplines of surveying , geodesy , and photogrammetry —the field of geomatics , collectively.
VisiCalc ("visible calculator") [1] is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, [2] originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp on October 17, 1979. [1] [3] It is considered the killer application for the Apple II, [4] turning the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool, and then prompting IBM to introduce the IBM PC two years ...
Nearly three years after the first lawsuit filing, in July 2022, Gannett (the parent company and publisher of the Democrat & Chronicle) defense attorneys notified the court of their intent to file a motion to have the former paperboys' Child Victims Act cases taken "out of the state court system and turn them over to the New York Workers ...