American Horsepower

Author : Mike Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610608060
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Horsepower written by Mike Mueller and published by . This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of every great car, there lies a great engine. The high-performance muscle car; the high-mileage family car; the high-speed race car: no matter the vintage or voltage, the torque or the task, the car with the power to move Americans—and the world—boasts an engine of remarkable ingenuity, dependability, and power. American Horsepower: 100 Years of Great Car Engines pays tribute to 25 outstanding American-made engines valued for their raw horsepower or their design simplicity, their longevity or their design innovation—or, in rare instances, all of the above. Bringing an auto enthusiast’s touch to the subject, author and photographer Mike Mueller details each engine’s conception, creators, specifications, performance records, and more. His knowledgeable, accessible text, accompanied by historical images, crisp detail shots, and studio-quality photographs, conveys with precision and unfailing interest the driving power of the great American engine.

Author : Joy Priest
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987589
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horsepower written by Joy Priest and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self—a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track—before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. Out of a space that is at once southern and urban, violent and beautiful, racially-charged and working-class, she attempts to transcend her social and economic circumstances. Across the collection, Priest writes a horse that acts as a metaphysical engine of flight, showing us how to throw off the harness and sustain wildness. Unlike the traditional Bildungsroman, Priest presents a non-linear narrative in which the speaker lacks the freedom to come of age naively in the urban South, and must instead, from the beginning, possess the wisdom of “the horses & their restless minds.” FROM "RODEO" The four-wheeler is a chariot. Horse-wraiths Kicking up a plume of spirits in the dirt behind us. Her arms kudzu around my middle. Out here, In the desert, everything is invisible. Only the locusts’ flat buzz gives Them away. Everything native & quieting Perennial & nighthawk black As we ride through: the cowgirls, The witch & the water sky-mirror-split, The severity of squall lines. Also, the lips Parting air like lightning & the girl Blowing bubbles—in each one a rainbow.

Author : United States. Bureau of Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relation of the Horsepower to the Kilowatt written by United States. Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Bielakowski
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Horses to Horsepower written by Alexander Bielakowski and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Front, the stalemate of trench warfare became the defining image of the war throughout the world. While horse cavalry remained idle in France, the invention of the tank and its potential for success led many non-cavalry officers to accept the notion that the era of horse cavalry had passed. During the interwar period, a struggle raged within the U.S. Cavalry regarding its future role, equipment, and organization. Some cavalry officers argued that mechanized vehicles supplanted horses as the primary means of combat mobility within the cavalry, while others believed that the horse continued to occupy that role. The response of prominent cavalry officers to this struggle influenced the form and function of the U.S. Cavalry during World War II.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the United States Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Wire and Cable Terminology written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book Circular of the Bureau of Standards written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Standards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Government Specification for Portland Cement written by United States. Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Standards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Circular of the Bureau of Standards written by United States. Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Vizard
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1934709174
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Vizard's How to Build Horsepower written by David Vizard and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracting maximum torque and horsepower from engines is an art as well as a science. David Vizard is an engineer and more aptly an engine building artist who guides the reader through all the aspects of power production and high-performance engine building. His proven high-performance engine building methods and techniques are revealed in this all-new edition of How to Build Horsepower. Vizard goes into extreme depth and detail for drawing maximum performance from any automotive engine. The production of power is covered from the most logical point from the air entering the engine all the way to spent gasses leaving through the exhaust. Explained is how to optimize all the components in between, such as selecting heads for maximum flow or port heads for superior power output, ideal valvetrain components, realizing the ideal rocker arm ratios for a particular application, secrets for selecting the best cam, and giving unique insight into all facets of cam performance. In addition, he covers how to select and setup superchargers, nitrous oxide, ignition and other vital aspects of high-performance engine building.